Mike Hawkins Quotes

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.

There is always room for improvement, and I have always grown up knowing however well I have done, there is always something I could have done better.

Everything I get praised for, I can still work on and get better.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

The day you think you have reached your fullest potential is the day that you havn't.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

I love to look at my life and look at what I can do better, how I can contribute more and where I can push myself.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.