Jim Rohn Quotes

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

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 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.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.

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.

Everyone needs some trial and error figuring out how it's gonna work for them. I could have gotten that out of the way a little sooner but I think you're totally right, the way I kind of think about things and the way I wanted to put myself out there doesn't fit the traditional side of things. I needed things like podcasts and YouTube and things that allow you to get it out there yourself and stand in the flames.

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

I think it's very important to keep being frightened - if you're not frightening yourself, you should take a break. You need to keep experimenting. You also need to take time - that's how you do good stuff - layering and depth of knowledge.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.