Quotes About Focus

Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.

What we are describing is a mindset change from "doing my job" to "doing the job." It is also a change in focus from "what we are doing" (work) to what is getting done (results).

He had a reputation for clearing his desk of every file before leaving every day. Without a haystack, he felt, you can't lose any needles.

I'm fairly certain that, because Belly was distracted and wound up linked with you instead of me, my own chemically enhanced ability wasn't strong enough to keep it open single-handedly.

But Walter was only interested in what Nina was carrying. She was the one with the food.

He ignored the disturbing ripple and tried to focus on the gateway.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

A positive mind is like a powerful stream of water that is gathering volume and force from hundreds of tributaries all along its course. The further on it goes the greater its power, until when it reaches its goal, that power is simply immense. A negative mind, however, would be something like a stream, that the further it flows the more divisions it makes, until, when it reaches its goal, instead of being one powerful stream, it has become a hundred, small, weak, shallow streams.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

I am not going to waste time on revenge when my energy is better spent toward rebuilding.

When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

The world divides between those who can watch television knowing there's an isolated jigsaw fragment lying on the floor and those who can't.

A mission keeps you on the rails. The OKRs provide focus and milestones.

A mission keeps you on the rails. The OKRs provide focus and milestones. Using OKRs without a mission is like using jet fuel without a jet.

We start our journey to our dreams by wanting, but we arrive by focusing, planning and learning.

Life always gives you plenty to do. The secret is not forgetting the things that matter." "Yes,

Solve the problems you have, not the ones you imagine.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Good prose is solitary work.