As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list. — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve. — 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… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to 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
