E. L. James Quotes

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.

I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it's going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it'll be a major thing.

I set really high expectations.

Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.

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

I always thought records were there to be broken.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.

You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.