Quotes About Optimal Performance

#1. When the brain isn't working properly and we don't understand how to calibrate the brain for optimal performance we are going to feel these doubts, fears and anxieties and most people when this happens they don't understand why and they let that paralyze them.

John Assaraf

#2. You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do ... I honestly do ... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

Aaliyah

#3. Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.

Ralph Marston

#5. Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

Juliette Lewis

#6. The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.

Gordon Wright

#7. We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Henry Louis Gates

#8. Rural places have hemorrhaged their best and brightest children, their intellectuals, thinkers, organizers, leaders, and artists-those who would create change and who would parent another generation of thinkers. All gone.
Our seeds are disappearing.

Janisse Ray

#9. Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

Nora Ephron

#10. We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Beverley Nichols

#11. Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

Tom Golisano

#12. Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

Lorii Myers

#13. Sometimes she makes you very sad....she touches something in you, and you've begun to touch back. - Bob Ballard

Charles Pellegrino

#14. Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Gregory Bateson

#15. We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

Jessica Collins