Christie Hefner Quotes

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

I never let myself get ahead of myself.

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?

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

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

I need to worry about the things that I am in control of.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

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

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.