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"Nothing should lead you aside from your planned route."
"If you desire to be productive with your time, you should select a maximum of two things that are your highest priority, and plan time to work on them."
"To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal."
"Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success."
"The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."
"If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows."
"It does not matter how long it takes to reach the goal. With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, you will make it a reality."
"If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes."
Explore more quotes by Augusten Burroughs
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
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