Greg Behrendt Quotes

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

At the end of the day, it is about doing your best work - controlling what you can control and not trying to control what you can't.

I only focus on what I can do.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

I only really work when I want to.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Our own laziness taxes us more than kings...

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.