Quotes About Focus

Remember, it goes beyond reducing WIP. Being able to take needless work out of the system is more important than being able to put more work into the system.

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I expect you to work hard on our agenda.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

Work harder than your opponent.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.