Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
We're never satisfied with where we are as players.
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.
You’re always reaching for the next thing. Every success leads to another one because you’re always testing yourself.
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.
I've got far to go. There's always more to be done.
I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.
I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.
The race for excellence has no finish line.
Ambition has no rest!
1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth
A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
I don't know if I'll ever feel like I've made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as artists, are always wanting more and working towards more and keeping busy. There is just so much that we all want to accomplish, and I just have so many goals that I haven't met yet.
Every day, you try to get better, and I don't think I'll ever be complacent and happy with where I am, no matter what.
I work on my game daily. Because I'm never satisfied, never going to be.
I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.
No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.
My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".
If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
I'm a person and an actor that's constantly unsatisfied. I'm always reaching for something higher.