Chris Weidman Quotes

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

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.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

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.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Competence is the enemy of change!

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

I think growth covers up mistakes.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Don't be content with things as they are.

It's not enough to keep people in a static condition. We've got to give them lift.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

Nobody wants to change.

Where I Was Wrong

It is more profitable to be mindful of our own faults than of those of our age.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.