Eric Ripert Quotes

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I think any time I'm nervous I just pretend that I'm not, and that's how I deal with it.

I believe that comfort level is crucial for a performer.

Listen, running against Senator Graham is indeed a tough climb, but it is equally a hill worth climbing. I've faced things people have deemed impossible my entire life, and this is yet another journey where I prove that in America, the impossible is always possible.

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

Your look reflects whats happening in your mind.

You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Coaches do get very nervous.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

I can't believe we really made it, I'm partly surprised.

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].

I get stressed preparing the night before a red-carpet event, so I like to try and plan on doing nothing in the day so I can relax and unwind beforehand. I usually take a long bath, eat a healthy meal and catch up on some reading.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.