Elizabeth George Quotes

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

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

I like to challenge myself.

Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

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

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

I love to challenge myself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

I like to push myself, you know.