Nick Cave Quotes

You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

I definitely understand a lot of what I want and what I don't want. I'm very clear on that, and I think that's been very beneficial.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I know where my priorities lie.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.