Quotes About Focus

What do you want to do? How can I help you find greater satisfaction within this organization? Where are your skills not being put to good use? How can I help you focus more of your time and energy on the thing(s) that tap your core competencies as well as add value to this organization?

It's been my experience that great leaders, in spite of a multitude of distractions, know how to keep things focused. They know how to inspire and motivate their followers to keep pushing "the main chance." They don't let side issues overwhelm them.17

Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

Don't be so concerned about keeping the folks you've got, that you neglect the folks you're trying to reach.

Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose.

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

To love you has blinded me from paying attention to my goals. Somehow love has made me soft and stupid.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

This was somehow a day on which concentration would not be possible, a day on which words must give way to images

You need to aim, to achieve.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

That was the trouble when you got obsessed with a case: you lost perspective, saw everything through the prism of the investigation.

When I was 12, I decided I was only going to watch Westerns for a few months.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

It's most difficult to bowl with wet ball.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.'