Henry Rollins Quotes

While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

I feel more productive, mostly because I feel like my ass is on the line. Before I had kids, I would sit around, drink, I don't even know what I did with myself.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Life and career kind of catches up with you.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"

Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.