Anish Kapoor Quotes

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

I'm constantly thinking.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.

You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.