Owen Farrell Quotes

I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.

Tomorrow is no place to place your better days.

Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.