John Eliot Quotes
Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.
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 your performance.
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 make things work.
Confidence is consistency of thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible.
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 even "crazy."
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.
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 off.
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 think exceptionally-a LOT!
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
