David Chase Quotes

A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?

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

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

I know where my priorities lie.

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

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

What you don't do is as important as what you do.

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.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I know what I have to do in order to do good.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.