Quotes About Focus

if we want to live less stressful lives, we must learn to live with a single agenda: God's agenda.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

Anytime you don't have a picture in your head, you're in trouble or will be soon.

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Today I will do what other's won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.

I will do today what others won't, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

I will do today what others wont, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

There are things more worthy of our devotion than our own desires.

There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining them.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

You can be passionate about anything. Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Metric fixation leads to a diversion of resources away from frontline producers toward managers, administrators, and those who gather and manipulate data.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."7) Most organizations have multiple purposes, and that which is measured and rewarded tends to become the focus of attention, at the expense of other essential goals. Similarly, many jobs have multiple facets, and measuring only a few aspects creates incentives to neglect the rest.

measuring the simple when the desired outcome is complex. Most jobs have multiple responsibilities and most organizations have multiple goals. Focusing measurement on just one responsibility or goal often leads to deceptive results.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

Muscles are the way the body obeys the mind.

If you FOCUS on your PRIORITIES---You ELIMINATE all of your CONFUSION.

don't waste your precious life only dreaming, but not mental mapping

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Never look back, never forget.