The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the… — 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
