To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

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.

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.