Jim Rohn Quotes

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I'd like to soak up in new things, new skills.

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

As I evolve, my interests change, always. But, what is consistent is that I always look for something new to play.

I always think there's something you can learn.