John Eliot Quotes

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• 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…
• Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of long-term…
• Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
• Stress is the high-level performers PowerBar.
• History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are…
• You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.
• As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
• The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest…
• We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!
• The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and…
• 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…
• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to…
• Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people…
• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
• Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as…
• Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly…
• 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…
• 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 but…
• Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or…
• If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

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