Self-Management Quotes

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

What government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

I can't stand stage mothers. It doesn't work. You definitely feel that with the new generation of pop stars right now they've all managed to work it out for themselves. You have to have confidence in that. When you're young, you know your market better than I will. I love having young people on the show because I can learn from them.

I don't really want followers, to be honest; that's what Twitter is for. I want people who can make their own decisions and look after their own departments.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

I've always been the type to know that if I'm getting off the track, I know, 'OK, it's time to tighten up.' I feel like I can see it before it comes.

I have observed that people make strategic plans for brands, businesses, and companies, but they are not always strategic about themselves.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.