Art Quote by Brandon Webb

The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments…

— John Eliot

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that…

— Antonio Damasio

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good…

— Leo Sayer

What separates great athletes from mediocre ones isn't only talent and training - it's also how well they can handle discomfort.

— Laird Hamilton

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's…

— Dick Cavett

I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

— Daniel Levitin

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question,…

— John Eliot

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result…

— Charles Garfield

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

— Peter Drucker

“the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.”

— Cal Newport

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

— John Eliot

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

— Gustave Flaubert