Eric Nam Quotes

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

'Field of Dreams' made me realize that I wanted to live my dreams, to risk things for what I felt and what I dreamt of.

I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

My mother was very good about giving us a life that was, let's say, as normal as it could be, not a crazy jetting life at all. That's been helpful. It's given me the drive to be someone in the world rather than just sitting around.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

People in my life have either supported me or doubted me. The only people I hear are the doubters. So, for me, I look at life, and I don't feel like I have anything to prove, but I have an opportunity.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.

I've got a chip on my shoulder, and honestly, I've always had it, but I don't think about it in those terms, like I'm trying to be better than this guy or that guy. It just helps keep me focused.