Going Beyond Limits Quotes

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge.

I like pushing boundaries.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

I like to get myself in over my head.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

All winners are edgy. Guys that are pushing themselves are edgy. It's the old saying we have in Kentucky: I'd rather have a guy I have to say whoa to, than giddyup.

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Imagining what the possibilities are versus what is right in front of me has been the second biggest factor in defining my career.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.