Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

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

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always have something more important to do: you will have to take your children to school, you will have to cook something, you have to meet friends. But you have to fight if you want to write.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

I just want to let people know that JuJu is all about football. He's focused on football. But at the same time, I've gotta live my life, too.

There's bigger things to worry about than makeup.

Juggling too many things can disturb the balance and throw your personal or professional life off track.

I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

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?

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.