Jim Rohn Quotes

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

When you want to learn about something, what is the first thing you do... you go to the internet.

I'm one of those people who really likes to do my research.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won't ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.

It's amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep having information pumped into me. I look under every rock.

I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.