Chris Gardner Quotes

I try to do things I haven't been able to before.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.

Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

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.

It's always good to go outside of your comfort zone.

I was so happy in my comfort zone which was dancing. But after a point, you feel the need to grow, otherwise everything becomes boring. Naturally, the next step for me was acting.

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.

It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.