Zone Quotes - Page 29

• The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.

  Helen Keller

  Dream, Comfort, High Anxiety

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• If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hurt, Humor, Shining

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

  Cynthia Heimel

  New York, Tunnels, Bridges

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• I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Thinking, Comfort, Makers

  "Schroeder Escapes The House's Glass Ceiling" by Charles Bierbauer, www.cnn.com.

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• We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Animal, Soldier, March

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.89, Infobase Publishing

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• Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Axes, Long

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• No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Successful, Careers

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.120, Harper Collins

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• Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Humorous, Vectors

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• The uncomfort zone is very important for us... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Important, Looks

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• Once you step out of your comfort zone your life begins.

  Uriah Hall

  Mma, Comfort, Steps

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• Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.

  Bear Grylls

  Nice, Home, Needs

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

  Burton Silverman

  Artist, Together, Intense

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• What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.

  Arno Hintjens

  What Matters, Rocks, Feet

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• To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.16, Criss Jami

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• The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

  Eddie Harris

  Comfort, Steps, Realizing

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• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  Luc Tuymans

  Believe, Persistence, Giving

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• Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  Eason Jordan

  War, Terrible, Happens

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• The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

  James Laver

  Fashion, Shifting, Catching

  James Laver (1969). “Modesty in dress: an inquiry into the fundamentals of fashion”

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• When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Time Zones, Want

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• It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

  Bear Grylls

  Comfort, Steps, Grows

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• The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.

  Johannes Kepler

  Ocean, Moon, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Hands

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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• Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

  Victor Cruz

  Basketball, Football, Nfl

  Victor Cruz, Peter Schrager (2012). “Out of the Blue”, p.5, Penguin

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• It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Teacher

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1083, Best Books on

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