Geraldine Brooks Quotes

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

It's both a blessing and a curse. It's great having that goal and never settling, but at the same time I am rarely satisfied with things. I usually walk off stage thinking I can do better next time, it has to be more, more, more. Sometimes you have to just sit down and be like, "I'm in New York right now doing what I love." Look at all these things - I won a EMA last week.

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.

It's about staying level-headed and being appreciative of the chances I got and the games I played but, at the same time, wanting more.

When do any of us ever do enough?

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

I want to have it all.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.