Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

They asked a wise man: Why don’t we ever hear you backbiting and slandering?He said: I’m still not happy with myself to start with others.

We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.

The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.