Sam Hinkie Quotes

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

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.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

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.

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

I only focus on what I can do.

I just focus and concern myself with playing as I can.

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

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

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

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.