John Osborne Quotes

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Now I will have less distraction.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.