Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

I know where my priorities lie.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

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?

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.

I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.