Quotes About Focus

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change our focus so that the company was our product. The GGOB became an accelerated learning process we used to bring about a cultural and behavioral change and take down the walls that our command-and-control system had created.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement it like a hell.

Forget the arduous, intellectualized number crunching and data grinding that gurus say you have to go through to get strategy right. Forget the scenario planning, yearlong studies, and hundred-plus-page reports. They're time-consuming and expensive, and you just don't need them. In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

So much to do, so much time

What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said.

He had never been one to care about appearances or heroics or receiving accolades for his deeds. I daresay keeping Phèdre in one piece had kept him too busy; and then later, protecting me, too.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Watch the image, and let it go. Take note of it, know that it is there, and allow it to move away, across the landscape of your mind's eye. Allow yourself to see connections, Maisie. Then go to the case map, and plan your next move.

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Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.

we need to live fully in the moment and to develop attentive focus on whatever task is at hand.

focused attention results in deeper and subtler perceptions.

Keep your eye on the simple problems. Solve them, and everything else falls into place.

those men and women who were openly committed to some worthy goal achieved more than those who were reluctant to associate themselves with anything.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

Scarcity brings clarity.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.