Norton Juster Quotes

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Don't be content with things as they are.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

I don't think I'll ever become comfortable with just being here. I always want to take it further.

Even if you're not ready to live at your full volume, turn it up halfway and get there.

Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.

I have to improve to get to where I want to get and to be as good as I hope to be, so I keep working on it.

That's the way it should be: there has to be a drive to constantly improve.

I always want to prove that I've improved.

Good is not good, where better is expected

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.