Ann Makosinski Quotes

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Next time, you question what you are doing - ask yourself? What could I do more? In most cases, extra time will be the greatest leverage you can apply!

I maximize every day.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

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

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I like to challenge myself.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.