Quotes About Focus

We're focusing on producing top, great athletes for the Olympics.

If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.

I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.

First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.

I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I'm committed to try to make the product the best I possibly can.

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

I developed my own production company. I'm reading different books and writing, working on myself. I'm being focused on that, but also being focused on in front of the camera and balancing mommy life at the same time. I just want to continue to move forward.

I have a production company, I have a marketing company, I have different things that I have going on and different interests and there's nothing wrong with having different interests as long as you prioritize the things that you need to do first. And I do.

I have set up a production company and I am producing movies in Hollywood and that is going to be my focus.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.