If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? — Unknown
Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue.
Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you. — Young Jeezy
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. — Andy Gilbert
Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble. — Warren Buffett
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. — Dennis Rodman
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. — Christopher Reeve
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. — African Proverbs
Only a fool tests the depth of a river with no feet. — African Proverbs
you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret — Rainer Maria Rilke
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. — Edie Brickell
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top. — Terry Pratchett
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either. — Dale Earnhardt
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. — Ronald Reagan
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
Out Of My Depth Quotes
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal. — C. S. Lewis
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. — Hall Caine
My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it. — Kate Tempest
We can judge our progress by the courage of our question and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal. — Gotye
I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer. — Rosanne Cash
It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me. — William Mountford
I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially. — Jason Isaacs
If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting. — David Bowie
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows. — Frederick Buechner
The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be. — Oliver Burkeman
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.' — John Owen
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything. — Morgan Freeman
Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea. — Jim Rowe
Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times. — Kate Tempest
Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature. — Christopher Dawson
I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head. — Hakuin Ekaku
I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me. — Gary Allan
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent. Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself. And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved. Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors. For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight, in the deep living heart. — D. H. Lawrence
The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship. — Robin Sharma
You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out. — John Templeton
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does. — Leo Tolstoy
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance. — Osho
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous. — Joseph Campbell
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul. — Neil Gaiman
Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows. — Pablo Neruda
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