Quotes About Focus

I always say that boxing is 90% mental and 10% physical. You have to be in the right frame of mind to be successful.

Boxing is not just about physical strength, it's about mental strength too. You have to be able to stay focused and keep your cool under pressure.

Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot. It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive. It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of you. So close you can see it, yet you will never reach it. Don't vacation on Someday Isle.

to be cool, decisive, precise, yes, while the barn door hits you in the face

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. —Attributed to Jim Barksdale, Stephen Covey, Steve Jobs, the band Last Call, and others

Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The

Work is the only reason I leave home. I`m not a tourist. I don`t travel for pleasure. I don`t take vacations. I only leave the house when I have something to do.

Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: "What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch.

A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

We fixate on what is relevant to us, and we see what we want to see.

We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that's what's important.

The only way you win is by knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at, and sticking to what you're good at.

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

staring intently at the

This project saved his life," Jackie said. "It helped him channel all his energies while distracting him from pain."53

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

Will it, and set to work briskly.