Tom Bergeron Quotes

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

If you think about the future, you lose perspective of the present.

I think we all get a bit bogged down in our lives and our own careers and we have to take a step back and get a sense of proportion and perspective on things.