Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?
Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.
Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.
... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.
First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.
I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.
I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.
To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.
Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don't matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.
It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.
One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
