Ben Fountain Quotes

Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

If I don't learn something every single day, it's a wasted day.

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

I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them? ... Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. They haven't really internalized Habit 2 [Begin with the end in mind].

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.