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Quotes About Focus

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
~ Richard Proenneke
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.
~ Heber J. Grant
Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.
~ Shelby Foote
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
~ Damian Lewis
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
~ Jay Chiat
Work like you don't need the money.
~ Joseph Joubert
Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.
~ James Surowiecki
For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.
~ Andy Murray
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
~ LL Cool J
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
~ Charles Fletcher Dole
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
~ Laura Esquivel
I just have work to do; I just do it.
~ Ian MacKaye
Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
~ Henry Moore
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Only super-efforts count.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
~ Seth Godin