Quotes About Focus

Underachievement was always the best way to meet targets and get the bonus. The fact that bonuses were paid monthly also kept everyone focused on the present, while innovation is about making sacrifices today in order to have more tomorrow. Even

Most economists and policymakers have focused on "getting it right," while what is really needed is an explanation for why poor nations "get it wrong.

Simplemente ocurre que no queremos hacer esfuerzos innecesarios, siendo la palabra a subrayar «innecesarios», no «esfuerzos».

I want to ask her about the swim itself, the day and everything that happened, but she shrugs it off. The swim didn't matter so much, she says. That's not the hard part, the part she's proud of. She's proud of the training.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

Who you looking at

But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

Emotions are useless during business hours...

I can stop wasting the dwindling minutes of the only life I'll ever have obsessing over past events I can't do anything about, and future events that might never happen. I can teach myself to focus on the only time that matters, which is this moment right now, and use this precious time to appreciate, to cherish, the people I love.

Pay attention to the people you love. (Not later. Right now.)

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?

They brought you here so you could have choices," Ghassan said. "And you're blowing it. If you want to do something different when you grow up, you're going to have to get your shit together.

it's really in the business of keeping our eyes on the TV or our fingers clicking.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

There are no interruptions, really—there are simply mismanaged occurrences.

But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

Getting things done requires two basic components: defining (1) what "done" means (outcome) and (2) what "doing" looks like (action).

Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.