Quotes About Focus

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.

For me, the game starts with starting pitching.

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs struggle to maintain as the business grows. To ensure this environment continues, create a strong foundation and ensure everyone is on board.

At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the things you are trying to do are not only dissimilar but actively impede each other.

Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as the sale is over. And don't get distracted by post-ICO euphoria and the price of ETH or BTC.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

I got into this sport to make a statement.

I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I can write. It's all that matters.