High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances..

cross that person off your invitation list..

Great performers welcome pressure..

Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even….

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 hurting….

All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream..

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of ….

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confi….

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve..

Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves ut….

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal….

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

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-t….

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….

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..

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 nothing els….

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them..

Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, wh….

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform..

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolu….

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 irra….