True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.
Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.
I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American… and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year—1956…But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else…They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.
Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
No one else's roadmap to success will get you there.
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
Stress is the high-level performers PowerBar.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.