Quotes About Focus

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

That's been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that — where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success."

A lack of clarity is food for failure."

Being attached to the problems of yesterday or the insecurities of tomorrow will destroy your today."

Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!"

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness."

There is an unlimited amount of power to be found in simplicity. Keep your intent and action simple and the doors of success, happiness, and abundance will fly open for you."

We can all fight the battles of just one day. It is when we add the burdens of two uncontrollable days, yesterday and tomorrow, that we get overwhelmed.

Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want."

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once.

The goal is to minimize the amount of a program you have to think about at any one time. You might think of this as mental juggling—the more mental balls the program requires you to keep in the air at once, the more likely you'll drop one of the balls, leading to a design or coding error.

Spend your time on the 20 percent of the refactorings that provide 80 percent of the benefit.

Focus on "the red letters" alone and you'll miss much of Him in the Bible. From beginning to end, it's all about Him!

When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.

You rarely get any better than what you aim for. Therefore, be smart, be patient, and aim high.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.