Quotes About Focus

If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Yeah i saw An Inconvenient Truth, and i dont want to say it was preachy but let's not kid ourselves, i've got far more important work to do

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

Everything yields to diligence

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.

Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you.

Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

You cannot reach success only by working hard, you also need to be working smart.

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.