Tom Wolfe Quotes

Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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

Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.