Quotes About Focus

deep work. If you haven't mastered this foundational skill, you'll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.

You must be careful to choose a philosophy that fits your specific circumstances, as a mismatch here can derail your deep work habit before it has a chance to solidify.

When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.

Knuth deploys what I call the monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. Practitioners of the monastic philosophy tend to have a well-defined and highly valued professional goal that they're pursuing, and the bulk of their professional success comes from doing this one thing exceptionally well.

After a bad or disrupting occurrence in your life, Fredrickson's research shows, what you choose to focus on exerts significant leverage on your attitude going forward. These simple choices can provide a "reset button" to your emotions.

Digital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea." This advice comes from Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, a Dominican friar and professor of moral philosophy, who during the early part of the twentieth century penned a slim but influential volume titled The Intellectual Life.

the differences between expert performers and normal adults reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance in a specific domain.

In other words, this strategy suggests that when it comes to your relaxation, don't default to whatever catches your attention at the moment, but instead dedicate some advance thinking to the question of how you want to spend your "day within a day.

During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he'll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. "It sometimes confuses my colleagues," he told me. "They say, 'You're not out of office, I see you in your office right now!'" But to Grant, it's important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.

attention" to uncover the truth latent in each. In other words, he teaches: To learn requires intense concentration.

Wu, bir konu?mas?nda Day'den ?öyle bahsediyordu: 'Etraf?na bir kalabal?k topla ama onun paras?yla ilgilenme, çünkü bu kalabal???, onun dikkatini isteyen birine yeniden satabilirsin' fikrini gerçekten hayata geçiren ilk insand?.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.

It all depends on what you think is important, and, when the important stuff is happening, whether you're looking directly at it or looking away.

I just wanted Lee's attention—if not forever, then at least for the seven and a half minutes it would take him to polish me off.

te convertirás en aquello en lo que pienses constantemente.