Brie Larson Quotes

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me.

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

You always want that as a player, to have that guy on the other side of you that's equally as talented and can make plays. It fuels you a little bit.

In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

You don't hire for mediocrity. Instead, you bring people onto your team because you know that they'll make a valuable contribution and turn in amazing work. But, in order to have that expectation, you need to make sure you're fostering an environment that allows them to do so.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Always, at a big team, there's very hard competition.

In a top team, you always have very big competition between players, and for me, that's not a problem at all.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

To be the top guy throughout my life and my career, to have people coming at me every game, giving me their best shot - that's part of the reason I went to Duke. I love that stuff.

It is always good to perform with an actor who is good and inspires you to do better.

One thing about being in Metallica is I've always felt challenged.

It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.