Jim Rohn Quotes

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

Basically, I try to look at everything I do as a stretch.

You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Seek education from the cradle to the grave.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

I'm a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why - when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult - we wonder why we cower and we run away.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger. You're staying where you're at. Either you're getting better, or you're getting worse. You're not staying the same.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

I encourage all humans to do something out of your comfort zone that forces you to adapt. You'll be pleasantly surprised of your capabilities.

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

You have to go to your limit to progress.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Education forms the common mind.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.