Top Performer Quotes

#1. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Ben Horowitz

#2. I like you less when you don't like yourself.

Richard Stevenson

#3. If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#4. Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Jack Kirby

#5. We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Mel Torme

#7. Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

Lee Thompson Young

#8. It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

Vann Chow

#9. The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language

Alexandre Dumas

#10. In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit.

Jamie Redknapp

#11. 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.

John Eliot

#12. Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

Susan Rice

#13. Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. All through school, people told me I looked like Marcia Brady.

Christine Taylor

#15. I've always been asked, "What type of character would you love to play?," and I've always said a pastor.

Common

#16. 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 irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top.

John Eliot

#17. Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.

Lilly Singh

#18. I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Gilbert Gottfried

#19. I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.

Liam Neeson

#20. We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is don't do it.

Billy Graham

#21. So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.

John Hutton