Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Me, in all aspects of my life, I'm thinking about how can I maximize my skill set and who I am as a person. That's part of my job in becoming a better receiver.

I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

When I'm not worrying about what other people want, that's when I do the best work.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

I try as hard as I can to push myself. I try to create as much as I can. I try to grow on a daily basis.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

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

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.