Quotes About Focus

humility was the key to staying focused and to keeping a winning mind-set, as well as the key to accepting setbacks and turning them to positives.

primarily focus on Jesus' words in Matthew 24, which contain precise prophecies about signs that will become evident as we approach the end of this age.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Real programmers are those that can sleep in front of terminals ... with their eyes opened.

SHUT UP!...PADDLE!

Okay, so let's run faster.

No one can see the point where the longing is the most concentrated.

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Some problems don't actually matter.

Startups are about focusing and executing on a single, scalable idea rather than jumping on every good one which crosses your desk.

Good customer segments are a who-where pair. If you don't know where to go to find your customers, keep slicing your segment into smaller pieces until you do.

It is a total delusion for people to say, 'I don't have time' because we all have the same amount of time in a day. What they really mean is 'It isn't important enough to me now'.

Task jumping is NOT multi-tasking, it is time wasting. It can take between 2× and 8× more time to complete a task if you jump and flit between too many tasks. The time (void) between tasks consumes the most energy, as a body in motion tends to stay in motion. All the energy is in the starting again, again. Turn off all distractions, isolate yourself and maintain your flow state for as long as you can. Some simple tools to do this are in forthcoming chapters.

All traditions of Buddhism stress the importance of first practicing calm abiding meditation (shamatha) and then insight meditation (vipassana).

When you meditate you cannot clear your mind, you cannot stop thoughts, you cannot get rid of emotions,

Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it.

The fact that the bodies weren't my first concern–-pissing and bodies were, in that order—-helped too. Killers have different priorities.

Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.

If you do everything, you'll win