Ann Reinking Quotes

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

There's always things to improve, you can't be satisfied with what you have.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

I love, when I feel challenged, to step up to my highest capacity.

I am the kind of person who likes taking one step at a time and raising the bar with each film.

We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.

I always challenge myself to do something better, and people in the industry appreciate that.

Football's no different from any other workplace. If you're not doing the job you think you're capable of, it's frustrating. And I'm aiming for the stars. I'm not content with being in the shadows.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you.

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

I like challenges. That's why if I read a script, and I feel, 'Oh, I can't do this,' I'll take that role, because if I feel like, 'Oh, I can do this,' I don't want to take that because I can't learn from that film.