James Mirrlees Quotes

I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

I'm actually improving.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.

A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I just want to be better every day, to get better every day, not to be better than anyone else.

All I do is get better.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

I think one thing I've always focused on is getting better instead of getting somewhere.

For me, I'm just trying to keep getting better.

Every year you want to keep elevating you. And that's what I want to do.

If a player wants to be the best, then they also need to give themselves a talking-to. You need to look inwards.

I just continue to keep getting better.

The most important thing is that I continue to improve.

I've just been trying to improve - it's a not a deliberate thing to focus on one thing.

You can always get better and always improve so that's what I do.

We can all improve.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.

I need to get a lot better.