Emma Goldman Quotes

the urgent crowds out the essential.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

First Things First

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving college the old college try.

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

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?

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.