Daniel Levitin Quotes

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

Many people, in their attempt to build a successful life, forget there are tools to help them.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.

I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

There are so many guys that come up and have strong hearts, but they just have to understand what the consequences are and how to execute the things that they learned to make themselves successful.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.