Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

If I didn't have my little schedule book, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

I lead my life as normal.

I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.

If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.

What a day-to-day affair life is.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

That's all you do in life: you find your perch, and if it suits you, just carry on. There's nothing Graham Greene about it.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week from now or a month from now - just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

If you wake up in the morning with a great sense of the things that have to be done in the day in order to get through to the next day, you lose the sense of the day as any kind of end in itself.