Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!
Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don't think about the other things.
A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: "Run your own race, put on your blinders."
Sometimes there's too much noise about what's happening, but this is Barcelona - it is a big club. Sometimes people make more of things than they have to. We need to try to close the team away from all that noise outside.
The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.
Just keep focusing on the work that you're doing. Focus on what's in front of you today. And don't read the papers, just go campaign. Just do your thing. Talk to people directly
