Richard Linklater Quotes

I try to focus on each day and try to be the best I can be today.

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.

All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

I try to practice with my life.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.