
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
To Dr. Peter Kleist. Quoted in " The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
referring to his colleagues in the European Council
Jean-Claude Juncker, quoted by Dirk Von Kock 'Die Brüsseler Republik' http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-15317086.html in Der Spiegel (2000), then by Florian Eder 'Junckers Tricks in den langen Brüsseler Nächten' http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article112948572/Junckers-Tricks-in-den-langen-Bruesseler-Naechten.html in Die Welt (2012).
1999
Part I, section xxii, stanza 1
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
Source: The Summer Tree
Quote of Escher, from his essay on Tessellation 1957; as cited by Tony Thomas, in 'The Strange Worlds of M C Escher' http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/the-strange-worlds-of-m-c-escher/
1950's
David Seabury, as quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), p. 248
Misattributed
Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”
Source: The Long Goodbye