Quotes About Focus

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese.

No race has ever been won in the first corner," he said. "But plenty of races have been lost there.

The car goes where your eyes go.

Dirka?i pravijo, da avto pelje v smer pogleda. Voznik, ki ne more odtrgati o?i od ograde, ko izgubi nadzor, se zaleti vanjo; voznik, ki pogleda na stezo, ko za?uti, da so zavore proste, si povrne oblast nad vozilom. Avto gre, kamor gredo o?i. Druga?e re?eno, kar udejanjaš, je pred tabo.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

Gary D. Schmidt

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you.

The most important thing," he said, "is to be present in the face of fear.

Do not be sidetracked. A good referee will have many ways to distract an expedition, many things to draw attention, but ignore them if at all possible.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat." Being fully "present" in each moment is a discipline that can save our sanity.

Focus your life on today and tomorrow. The past is done, so move on!

success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.

They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.

Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Yet that is exactly how most play it on a daily basis.

Until my ONE Thing is done—everything else is a distraction.

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, "I just need more discipline." Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.