Quotes About Focus

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves

People forget sometimes, in order to become number one, you have to be a bit crazy. You have to do things out of the norm.

The hardest thing in tennis is to forget the double fault or the missed chances, and most players can't. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look forward to the next chance.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

That first game of the fifth set goes deuce and several times.

Brad Gilbert

I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.

Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer.

We pay attention to what our competitors do but it's not where we put our energy.

But don't be worried about our competitors because they`re never going to send us any money anyway. Let's be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused."15

The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of everything else.

Bezos is like a chess master playing countless games simultaneously, with the boards organized in such a way that he can efficiently tend to each match.

Jeff always said that when you focus on the business inputs, then the outputs such as revenue and income will take care of themselves.

Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, published in 1984. The book, cloaked in the guise of an entertaining novel, instructs manufacturers to focus on maximizing the efficiency of their biggest bottlenecks.

The notion that he can accomplish a huge amount with a larger time frame, if he is steady about it, is fundamentally his philosophy.

stubborn on vision, flexible on details

Later Bezos recalled speaking at an all-hands meeting called to address the assault by Barnes & Noble. "Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning," he told his employees. "But don't be worried about our competitors because they`re never going to send us any money anyway. Let's be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused."15