Tony Shalhoub Quotes

I don't like to direct myself.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

I am not driven.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I only really work when I want to.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

We can control how we run, and that's about it.

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

I think about the things I control and do them well.

I worked because I could control it.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.