Vera Wang Quotes

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

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 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.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I'm competitive with myself.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.

I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.

We are competing against ourselves.

You have to keep improving.

I always feel that I compete with myself.

There's always ways to improve.

The challenge itself is to exceed certain high standards you've set for yourself.

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.