Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

We must know our limitations and expend our lives only in the cause of our independence.

Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

I have confidence in my ability, and I try to isolate myself from everything going on around me.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.