Chris Rock Quotes

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Now I will have less distraction.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.