Quotes About Focus

Chemar Holder plays Xbox with me online all the time but it's not like any of us are going to be buddy, buddy in the middle. We might make a small joke every now and again but it's not going to be overly friendly because everyone's got a job to do.

Being quickest in practice is nice. It builds a lot of confidence overnight.

Mind games to me are overrated.

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

You can almost get overwhelmed if you start focusing on Serena being on the other side of the court.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

each switch imposes a direct penalty of a bit more than twenty minutes of lost concentration.

The top quartile, those who did the exercise most rapidly and effectively, work in space that is substantially different from that of the bottom quartile. The top performers' space is quieter, more private, better protected from interruption, and there is more of it. What

There are a million ways to loose a workday, but not even a single way to get one back.

people aren't inclined to work on tasks in the wrong order, since they derive satisfaction from accomplishment, and a motivation toward meaningful accomplishment tends to steer them onto the critical path. A little pressure might decrease wasted time slightly and cause an equally slight improvement in focusing on the critical path.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

People under time pressure don't think faster."    Ã¢â'¬â€Tim Lister Think rate is fixed. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you can't pick up the pace of thinking.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.

He made a conscious decision not to think about it, and accordingly spent the rest of his shift thinking about nothing else.

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly.

You are and will become that which you think about most of the time.

Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.

A Third Generation military focuses outward, on the situation, the enemy, and the result the situation requires,

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

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Without a target to shoot at, our lives are literally aimless. Without something productive to do, without positive goals and a purpose, a human being languishes. And then one of two things happens. Aimlessness begins to shut a person down in spiritual lethargy and emptiness, or the individual lashes out and turns to destructive goals just to make something happen.