Quotes About Focus

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than others and that you enjoy most.

You are more likely to win again where you have won before. You are more likely to win when you are selective about the races you enter.

We used to joke that the ideal Amazon site would not show a search box, navigation links, or lists of things you could buy. Instead, it would just display a giant picture of one book, the next book you want to buy. —Greg

The focus should be on the customer, not on the Web site. It's pretty obvious that a simple Web site is easier to use than one with of a bunch of fancy gadgets. He was adamant about that.

Poor school performance and productivity are temporary; motivation is permanent.

What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose.

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have come to appreciate the long view afforded by those treetops. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets?

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

That is, you can't get outside the present to make it an object of thought.

we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.