Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
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… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
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,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth.… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
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… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird,"… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
