Judith Viorst Quotes

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

There's always ways to improve.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

You need new ways to keep motivating yourself, and creative ways are part of the formula.

I don't think I'm successful.

I always want to remain inspired.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

You never know what motivates you.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I like to push myself, you know.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

I just need to improve.

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'