Steven Crowder Quotes

Keeping my focus on what's important - inside the Octagon and out - is never lost on me.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

I like someone who's focused and can tell me what they've done well and not well and who's very open, honest, and self-aware.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

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.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

I don't worry about my opponent or their game, I worry about my game.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

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

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.