Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

Don't be one foot in and one foot out, especially coming up in New York. It's so easy to lose sight of what you want to do and who you want to be.

I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.