Quotes About Focus

consistency is a state of mind that, once achieved, won't allow you to "be" any other way.

How do we remain disciplined, focused, and confident in the face of constant uncertainty?

I keep going on about it, but musicians are a unique sort. The stage is everything to them – there's nothing outside of it. It's as if they're still performing in a school play and their mam's out in the audience and they're busting a gut to upstage every other fucker around them. I've got to keep an eye on this all the time.

A clear vision is as much about what you are not going to do as it is about what you are going to do.

A closed list is a way of applying limits to our work in order to increase our efficiency.

The problem that this amount of random activity causes is that it's not just what gets done that is random – what doesn't get done is random too. This means that whether something gets done or not is as much a matter of chance as of rational decision.

As soon as you cross your property line, you might as well write off the possibility of getting anything else done that day.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #9: TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES, AND THE HOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

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WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #12: IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS, DO ONE SMART THING AT A TIME.

The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

1. Say to the person, "And the reason it's so important to fix this or make this better now is ______________." This fill-in-the-blanks technique requires the person to think of an answer, which opens the door to the reasoning (human) parts of the brain.

Here are the three keys: Get in (quickly and efficiently describe the issue), neutralize the problem (by explaining how to handle it or why it isn't really a problem), and get out (move on to the next topic —do not linger or go into excess detail). Here's an example.

When they have setbacks, they don't resort to whining, blaming someone, or withdrawing. Instead, they're determined.

The key to winning is poise under stress. —PAUL BROWN, THE LATE COACH OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS AND CINCINNATI BENGALS

But to become preoccupied with Satan and his kingdom is equally dangerous.

Our ultimate focus is on Christ and His game plan for our lives. But we are fools if we are ignorant of the devil and his schemes.

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As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Nature remains focused on survival.

È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

E' il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

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in 1991 the then British Chancellor, Norman Lamont, told the House of Commons that: "… rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. That focus on keeping inflation down remains at the heart of monetary policy.