Sheila Heti Quotes

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake." "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.