Quotes About Focus

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

To live in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.

When a painting I'm working on becomes my singular focus—when I am "in the zone," as I've heard people put it—a trancelike state will sometimes overtake me.

If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.

Si quieres saber donde esta tu corazón, mira donde va tu mente cuando sueñas despierto.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

In your working conditions avoid everyday mediocrity. Semi-relaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading. On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. If the latter sharpens the inner ear, the former acts as a touchstone for a diction ample enough to bury even the most wayward sounds.

The "meaning of life" is really the center about which the novel moves.

Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon.

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, he said. That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple

Knowing that great conceptions are worth little without precision execution

Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint." The product review revealed how unfocused Apple had become. The company

the calm in the vortex.

Empiece por los detalles.

there's your answer." It was not, however, a definitive answer. Jobs had a way of focusing on something with insane intensity for a while and then, abruptly, turning away his gaze. At work, he would focus on what he wanted to, when he wanted to, and on other matters he would be unresponsive, no matter how hard people tried to get him to engage. In his personal life, he was the same way.

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

His management mantra was "Focus." He eliminated excess product lines and cut extraneous features in the new operating system software that Apple was developing