Quotes About Focus

Don't fight your willpower. Build your days around how it works and let it do its part to build your life. Willpower may not be on willcall, but when you use it first on what matters most, you can always count on it.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." This

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

The truth about success is that our ability to achieve extraordinary results in the future lies in stringing together powerful moments, one after the other. What you do in any given moment determines what you experience in the next. Your "present now" and all "future nows" are undeniably determined by the priority you live in the moment. The deciding factor in determining how you set that priority is who wins the battle between your present and future selves.

You don't need to be a disciplined person to be successful. In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." —Steve Uzzell

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous.

Encontre o seu equilíbrio e o seu mundo organiza-se. Quando traz um propósito para a sua vida, conhece as suas prioridades e conquista uma produtividade elevada na prioridade que é mais importante todos os dias, a sua vida ganha sentido e o extraordinário torna-se possível.

Extraordinary results require focused attention and time.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere.

The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others

The problem with living in the middle is that it prevents you from making extraordinary time commitments to anything. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

Pursuing a balanced life means never pursuing anything at the extremes.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Many of Admiral Stark's subordinates were so fixated on the idea that the navy battleships were protecting Pearl Harbor that they had trouble seeing the ships themselves as a Japanese target. The connection strategy is more than just connecting the dots. It involves changing the way we think.

To quote Mark Twain, "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

FARBSS (Friedman Archives Recipe for Better Sports Shots) method, which you may wish to commit to a memory location: · Set your camera to A (Aperture Priority) mode (yes, APERTURE). · Set the F/stop all the way open (lowest number). · Set ISO to something reasonable depending on your light. Your target goal for shutter speed is 1/2000th of a second or faster. · Set Focus mode to AF-C. · Set Focus Area to Wide. · Set Drive Mode to Continuous Shooting in Mid- or Hi-speed mode.

When we focus on what we can do, it's amazing how little time we have left to become consumed by our disappointments.

When God does not supply our motivation, we tend to major in the minors and minor in the majors.

One of Satan's cleverest attacks is getting us to pour our time and energy into people who resent the grace we share and who will never change, keeping us from spending time with and focusing on others whom we can love and serve.