Quotes About Focus

Most people in the real world don't obsess over it.

minimize time spent reading newspapers

the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.

we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)

all these considerations disappear because you have your mind on much bigger and better things.

Their strength is extremely domain-specific

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

his conversation becomes mere chitchat around the point, never getting to the central idea.

The beast in this book is not just the bell curve and the self-deceiving statistician, nor the Platonified scholar who needs theories to fool himself with. It is the drive to "focus" on what makes sense to us. Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the

It is hard to stick to a good discipline of mental write-off when things are going well, yet that's when one needs the discipline the most.

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

The need to focus on the payoff from your actions instead of studying the structure of the world (or understanding the "True" and the "False") has been largely missed in intellectual history.

Ninety-five percent of the employee's mind will be on company politics…

Creo que la poesía y el teatro requieren las mismas cosas. Creo que requieren una absoluta inmovilidad, un pleno abandono, una total atención, un profundo silencio.

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely to do my best. The assignment is too vague.

Success in life belongs to those who do.

Doing what I am doing while I am doing it.

Again, living purposefully entails living consciously.

To be in focus does not mean that one must be engaged in the task of problem-solving every moment of one's waking existence. It means that one must know what one's mind is doing.

Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.

With his industrial connections, he gathered information on Norwegian firms and how they were helping the Germans. Norsk Hydro was but one focus of many.

Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.