"That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Al Yankovic

#Trying Quotes #Depth Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.”
“The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.”
“When you'rethe only one to do something, it always gets done.”
“Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.”
“In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.”
“It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until whatâ€™s left is all construct, all artifice.”
“I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood Iâ€™ve seen my mother and she hasnâ€™t asked, â€˜Why that shirt?â€™”

Source : Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.201, Macmillan
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

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