Sylvie Guillem Quotes

What really motivates me to climb harder and harder is not necessarily that I want to push my limits or show who's best, but climbing harder and harder routes makes it more fun.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Once you start to become OK at something, you learn to enjoy it more.

Every time I do something new, it makes me a bit stronger. Playing huge shows, being invited to play with Nile Rodgers after the Brits - all are mindblowing and I have a great team around me who are empowering. It makes all the difference.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.