Jay Chiat Quotes

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

I think new experiences are extremely important. I think it's really important to constantly challenge yourself. Comfort is not a good thing. It's good to take yourself out of your comfort zone and to look for new challenges.

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

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 have always believed in reinventing myself and taking risks.

I'm open to anything that pretty much challenges me.

I like new challenges.

Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.

I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.

I am always looking for projects that make me step out of my comfort zone and do something different.

For me, I just like new challenges.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

I think when you're really passionate about something, and maybe not every person is like this, but I think there's a large group that feels deep inside, I want something different, I want something more, I want to go on my own path. It's being comfortable being uncomfortable. Because to do that, you're going to have to jump outside of the comfort zone and it isn't going to be perfect. It's going to be scary. And to me, that's when great things happen.