Quotes About Focus

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't.

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

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You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn't. Put

Quentin suppose her unfussy diligence reminded him unpleasantly of the future he was ignoring.

It's a wasteland out there. Out here. You can do nothing or anything or everything, and none of it matters. You have to find something to really care about to keep from running totally off the rails.

It proves that no man can be a success in two national pastimes.

Your goals and priorities will change over time. Always keep your current goals on a single sheet of paper with you. It demystifies the future, and will keep you on track and help you get what you want.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

If interest promotes effort, effort in turn sustains interest.

It is easy to find oneself so wrapped up in the end result that one pays too little attention to the small steps it takes to arrive there.

Every day you run the risk of neglecting your own purposes in the whirl of responding to other people's requests and concerns. This

Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.

My dad ran a few marathons; I fight the urge to do the same because I know that it's not the most efficient way to train unless you're preparing for an event similar in nature, which baseball players are not.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

Every time I'm practicing, playing or prepping, Majors are always going to be the ones everybody wants to win. But putting the urgency or too much pressure on yourself is not going to do any favors.

Players want to get better with their skill set and 3-point shooting, ballhandling, their bodies, whatever it is, but everything starts with a sense of urgency.

The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.

I tend to take on too many projects at the same time, but as I've always done, I will continue to shift my focus onto whatever feels most urgent in the moment.

My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.