Quotes About Focus

Third, based on your first-cut conclusions about strategic priorities, identify a few ways to achieve early wins and build momentum.

Finally, you can use the information you collect during this first-cut prioritization and planning process to sketch out an early road map. The map will give you focus, help you understand how to deploy resources and talent most efficiently,

You can't hope to execute with high levels of quality and reliability (and low costs) without an intensive focus on developing processes that specify both the ends and the means (methods, techniques, tools) in exquisite detail.

Devote some time to defining your learning agenda as early as possible, and return to it periodically to refine and supplement it. Efficient learning means identifying the best available sources of insight and then figuring out how to extract maximum insight with the least possible outlay of time.

All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important. All you need to do is take your life seriously. To create it intentionally. To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.

Some managers mistake "customer focus" to mean they must serve all customer needs or respond to every request from distribution channels.

Strategy is making trade-offs in competing. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

So long as you're facing in the right direction, every step you take is the right step.

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time

The internet, wrote Nicholas Carr in The Shallows, his book about brain science and screen time, steadily chips away at one's "capacity for concentration and contemplation.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

If you're doing something you have to concentrate on you can't also be thinking about doing it, and if you're thinking about doing it then you can't actually be doing it. Yes?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

The inability to access our intuition is primarily caused by the excess of clutter in our minds and in our lifestyles.

When you are on the path, the attraction of drugs and alcohol dramatically diminishes, because you realize how much they knock you around and disturb your clarity, focus, and work flow.

Clarity refers to the focus on one particular message or goal at a time, rather than accomplish too much at once

Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.

Michael Hutchinson

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

The defensive posture is attributed to Rome's focus on the consolidation of the city around its seven hills, but it also reflects Rome's internal class warfare and confused structure of governance that relied on crisis management, versus proactive, governance.

John Kotter, the noted Harvard professor and author on leadership, writes that the key difference between leaders and managers is that leaders focus on getting to the right questions, whereas managers focus on finding solutions to those questions.13 The focus on finding answers must not obscure the importance of asking the right questions. Successful leaders know that they cannot get the right answer without asking the right questions.