Matthieu Ricard Quotes

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

There's some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I'll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

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.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

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.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.