Quotes About Focus

Adopting new technologies can improve the way we solve Jobs to Be Done. But what's important is that you focus on understanding the underlying job, not falling in love with your solution for it.

anticipated opportunities—the opportunities that you can see and choose to pursue. In Honda's case, it was the big-bike market in the United States. When you put in place a plan focused on these anticipated opportunities, you are pursuing a deliberate strategy.

The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.

The danger for high-achieving people is that they'll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments.

As you're living your life from day to day, how do you make sure you're heading in the right direction? Watch where your resources flow. If they're not supporting the strategy you've decided upon, then you're not implementing that strategy at all.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward.

likeness, a commitment, and a metric—is the most reliable way I know of to define for yourself what your purpose is, and to live it in your life every day.

The reason good managers strive for focus in their organizations is that processes and tasks can be readily aligned.

Whatever you do, don't look back.

As much as you feel as though you need to find some relevant bit of information for your story to work, research distracts from your writing and inevitably leads you down a rabbit hole of websites and articles and, more than likely, the temptation of checking your email or your Facebook profile or the baseball scores on ESPN.

Try to finish everything. You'll always find your enthusiasm for a project waning as it goes on, and you'll be tempted by a new idea, but learn to ignore the latter and continue with the former. If you start abandoning work, you set a bad precedent, and establish a pattern for the years to come. And be nice to booksellers: never let them pay for a round.

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Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum efficiency.

And in fact this insight had often been confirmed by experience. I had frequently noted that I became accident-prone when I had allowed myself to become tired and discouraged, and that some instinct for avoiding accidents seemed to be aroused when I was feeling fully alive. I

I had learned a basic lesson: that the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose.

I never write purely for the fun of it. I write as a mathematician uses a sheet of paper for doing calculations: because I think better that way

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Hard work was the fundamental thing. For hard work did not allow time for marches.

Harriet Johnson was a slight hummingbird of a woman who conducted herself in everything with furious purpose.

True faith is too serious to have room for the distraction of passion.

And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough.

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge