Matt Haig Quotes

I'm not happy, because I'm not at the level I want to be.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

There will always be a sense of things you want to achieve, where you want to be, a sense of disappointment, a few regrets here and there. Those are always going to linger. How you cope with them and how you move on is what your life is about.

I'm such a pessimist. I find it impossible to enjoy anything, especially while it's happening. I'm thinking about how to get the next thing right.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.

Worry is negative goal setting.

Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

For me, making any kind of resolution or saying, "I'm doing this!" can only cause pain, to get very deep.