Jamie Wyeth Quotes

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

A finished person is a boring person.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, but if you don't push yourself, you're not growing, so where do you go?

If you are satisfied, you will never see any more progress. One remains dissatisfied, but that doesn't mean that things are not happening.

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.