Eric Ladin Quotes

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.

Competition is the best form of motivation.

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

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 think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early - get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee... prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.

I want to go a team where it'll be challenging for me.

I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.

My improvements, my fights and the competition is going to get better. I'm going to be ready for it.