Wallace Stevens Quotes

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

I can live without football. There are more important things in life.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

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.

Pay attention to matters of importance.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Very few things in life matter.

Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.

To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

When you run a race, you hurt your ability to compete when you turn your head to look at the competition chasing you, you lose a step physically and psychologically. Run the race always stretching to do your best, imitations will come in last, no one can catch an original.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.