Quotes About Focus

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring, and anxiety.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

I read part of it all the way through.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate ... at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up, or slow up.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.