Zone Quotes

• Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Mean
  • Uncomfortable

• The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Mind
  • Zone

• Pedagogy must be oriented not to the yesterday, but to the tomorrow of the child's development. Only then can it call to life in the process of education those processes of development which now lie in the zone of proximal development.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Life
  • Education
  • Development

• I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Home
  • Smart
  • Pitcher

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• The most erotic zone is the imagination.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Imagination
  • Zone
  • Erotic

• The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Listen
  • Album
  • Favorite Song

• My whole zone is dead. No electricity, no gas, no stores open nearby, but the spirit is there.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Spirit
  • Dead
  • Zone

• It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Projects

• Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Kids
  • Attention
  • Challenge

• I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Comfort

• You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

  

  John Travolta
  • Freedom
  • Kind
  • Joy

• One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Good
  • True
  • Freedom

• I've been in the danger zone.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Danger
  • Zone

• Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Good
  • Success
  • Pitches

• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Country
  • Business

• The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Balls
  • Zone
  • Strike

• Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Stephen M. Walt
  • Free
  • Wonderful
  • Nuclear

• As we look ahead, core inflation appears likely to remain in the zone of price stability during the remainder of 2004 and into 2005.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Price
  • Inflation
  • Zone

• It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Real
  • Comfort
  • Aliens

• It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Free
  • Poetry
  • Function

• The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

  

  George Gilder
  • Moral
  • Facts
  • Manners

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