Quotes About Focus

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

Every day spent producing reports is a day less spent on analysis and projects." There

I was miles and years away and then suddenly aware my hour was at hand, feeling all their eyes on me.

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We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture—if we are actually working on the right things.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

don't ever let your focus be so much on the one cloud in the sky that you miss noticing the unending expanse of beautiful blue and the brilliant, shining sun all around. What I do

When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.

Attention means bringing something or someone into focus so it is no longer blurred by the projections of your own ego; thus it requires genuine interest and curiosity about the mysterious and surprising truth that is you.

We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.

One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. ZEN SAYING

If you were a software developer who knew a lot about cloud computing, you would instantly be familiar with software companies such as Salesforce.com. If you were working in food marketing, your would clearly be familiar with Nestle, Mondel?z International or Yum! Brands. The point here is that there would never be a need to screen thousands of companies in industries you don't know anything about and haven't even heard of. Animal

If the 80/20 principle says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts,

It must be like a soldier in a trench during a bombing raid. I've shut down every nonessential emotion—worry, fear—concentrating every neuron in my new brain on the moment in order to stay alive.

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine," Viennese player Rudolf Spielmann would later advise. Even

Serious converts to the game usually have some powerful motivation—perhaps unknown to them—for investing in the game at a particular time in their lives.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

want to cut to the absolute bone.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

There's no shortage of problems with the human race, yet vegans decide to prioritize animals over humanity. Others prioritize exotic minorities over everything else. People need to get their priorities straight. Focus on what's important, not on what you are personally, subjectively into. You can't turn humanity's future into your love of pets, or your gender confusion, or whatever. It's not about you. It's about humanity.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.