Ryan Holiday Quotes

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

You don't have to get things done all the time to be productive.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

You have to take care of yourself so you can manage the workload of a very, very full plate.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

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

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.