Quotes About Focus

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

My life is very much consumed with work.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

Hard work's a good distraction.

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.