Jack Canfield Quotes

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

Some people might be groomed for success; I've just always thought I've got a hell of a lot of things to learn and places to go. Creatively, I couldn't stay on the same treadmill. I chose to be off-centre and do collaborative work.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

Do you feel good in your role? If yes, that's the perfect time for you to experiment with something new, to get out of your comfort zone. This willingness to learn is probably the most important thing for leaders of today and tomorrow.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.

I like to keep experimenting - singing, dancing, acting. I want to learn an instrument, dive. I want to do everything. I will keep pushing myself into as many things as I can.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never...yes, never...sell yourself short.

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.