Quotes About Focus

After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

Think: How many great achievements have you accomplished with little effort? Then why put less effort into the one thing you want most, which is love?

Walk into a library anywhere in the world and you'll notice the same thing: It's quiet and calm. Everyone knows how to behave in a library. In fact, few things transcend cultures like library behavior. It's a place where people go to read, think, study, focus, and work. And the hushed, respectful environment reflects that. Isn't that what an office should be?

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

No time is no excuse

Don't throw good time after bad work.

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.

The longer something takes, the less likely it is that you're going to finish it.

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work—this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can't be found. Instead, it's just one interruption after another.

Most people should miss out on most things most of the time.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

An owner unknowingly scattering people's attention is a common cause of the question "Why's everyone working so much but nothing's getting done?

soon you'll see that it's the work—not the clock—that matters.

The best designers and the best programmers aren't the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with Photoshop or their environment of choice, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn't matter. That's where the real gains are made.

Chaos should not be the natural state at work.

Management scholar Peter Drucker nailed it decades ago when he said "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.