Quotes About Focus

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

You get what you concentrate on…there is no other main rule.

Motivation will move you towards the top, consistency will take you to the top, but discipline is the key to keeping you there.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

I can think of is I distract him and you try

THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

Of course she is — that's what she's been up to this whole time,

thoughts gain power as they take a concrete shape in our mind.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Most organizations I've worked with have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed.

When players on a team stop caring about the scoreboard, they inevitably start caring about something else.

erring on the side of the client when it comes to fees. Because you're interested in a long-term relationship with a client, it is in your best interest to show them that you are more focused on helping them than you are in maximizing your short-term revenue.

KEY POINTS—FOCUSING ON RESULTS • The true measure of a great team is that it accomplishes the results it sets out to achieve. • To avoid distractions, team members must prioritize the results of the team over their individual or departmental needs. • To stay focused, teams must publicly clarify their desired results and keep them visible.

they make it clear that their focus is on understanding, honoring, and supporting the business of the client. As

Meeting #3:The Monthly Strategic This is the most interesting and in many ways the most important type of meeting any team has. It is also the most fun. It is where executives wrestle with, analyze, debate, and decide upon critical issues (but only a few) that will affect the business in fundamental ways. Monthly Strategic meetings allow executives to dive into a given topic or two without the distractions of deadlines and tactical concerns.

If everything is important, nothing is

It's not that they go out of their way to tick off their clients. It's just that they're so focused on saying and doing whatever is in the best interests of those clients that they stop worrying about the repercussions. They make themselves completely vulnerable, or naked, and don't try to protect themselves.

Hungry Only: The Bulldozer

If we hate meetings, can we be making good decisions and successfully leading our organizations? I don't think so. There is simply no substitute for a good meeting—a dynamic, passionate, and focused engagement—when it comes to extracting the collective wisdom of a team. The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.

The key to managing this challenge, of course, is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

The best performance management systems include only essential information, and allow managers and their employees to focus on the work that must be done to ensure success.

as odd as it may seem, it is actually more important for leaders to focus on making their organizations healthy than on making them smart.