Quotes About Focus

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Listen, listen, listen.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

You have to know what you want to get it.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.