Robin Sharma Quotes

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

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

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

[The devil] al­ways sends er­rors into the world in pairs—pairs of op­posites. And he al­ways en­cour­ages us to spend a lot of time think­ing about which is the worse.... He re­lies on your ex­tra dis­like of the one er­ror to draw you grad­u­ally into the op­po­site one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through be­tween both er­rors. We have no other con­cern than that with ei­ther of them.

I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball.

I've met so many older actors and comedians who've told me they wished they'd spent as much time with their kids as they did chasing the money. You've got to draw a line but it's a gamble.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

In Poland, the whole saying is, 'You've got one eye to Morocco and the other to the Caucasus.' That's the heart of the culture. In England, they say it less romantic: 'You've got a wandering eye.' The saying means my main stream in life must be Deep Purple. That's my main job. Then every now, and I can wander off and have one eye to Morocco.

Don't opt for acting as an escape from education.