Tom Herman Quotes

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I get to define for myself what being a success is.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

Feeling successful is internal, not external.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

Never allow anyone else to define your success.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I was really competitive with myself.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.