Korean Proverb Quotes

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give less to what you’re doing.

Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.