Quotes About Focus

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.' The

If we single-task on the most important project for two weeks and still aren't able to make a big dent, then I think we should all find new day jobs.

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing it. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it. Like Phoenix.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

When you channel your thinking, your mind becomes much more productive.

My best advice to a comedy writer is to set a quota and stick to it. It needn't be a demanding quota, but it must be inflexible.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.

But the good thing about subtle hints was that one could ignore them as long as the actual work got done.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved," Irene retorted. "If I were going on a heroic quest, I'd probably start off by making a list of things I'd need on the journey. Including some books to read during the dull bits.

You're being awfully calm about this." "Having your hand catch fire puts things into perspective…I find that it distracts me.

She ignores me. Clearly there's no stopping her until she's read every last word.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

Most companies fail to cross the chasm because, confronted with the immensity of opportunity represented by a mainstream market, they lose their focus, chasing every opportunity that presents itself, but finding themselves unable to deliver a salable proposition to any true pragmatist buyer.

This material focuses primarily on marketing, because that is where the leadership must come from

Ek gret effect men write in place lite;Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

The most important thing about having goals is having one.

running anywhere is not the same as running somewhere.

Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si când ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe

To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behvaior toward it.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

Don't think, dear, do.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.