John Schneider Quotes

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

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

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

I'm not going to waste time or energy spent on something I can't control.

With time, you learn to be calmer.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.