Quotes About Focus

Success does not lie in sticking to things. It lies in picking the right thing to stick to and quitting the rest.

Contrary to popular belief, winners quit a lot. That's how they win.

What is true for grit is true for optimism. Optimism gets you to stick to things that are worthwhile. But optimism also gets you to stick to things that are no longer worthwhile. And life's too short to do that.

When the outcome turns out poorly, it's easy to focus on the details that suggest the decision process was poor. We think we are seeing the decision quality rationally because the bad process is obvious.

Figure out the hard thing first. Try to solve that as quickly as possible. Beware of false progress.

Monkeys and pedestals boils down to some very good advice: Figure out the hard thing first. Try to solve that as quickly as possible. Beware of false progress.

the pass-fail nature of goals, their inflexibility, and how pursuing them leads to ignoring other opportunities that might be available.

To make these unlesses most effective, we need to create strong precommitment contracts that set out how we're going to follow through on those kill criteria. Then, to make sure that we're picking the unlesses that are going to get us to the fastest answer about whether the thing we're doing is worth pursuing, we need to do the work of identifying monkeys and pedestals.

Goals can also cause a myopia that makes it so we can't see other paths that are available to us, the other opportunities we might be able to pursue instead.

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

Be picky about what you stick to. Persevere in the things that matter, that bring you happiness, and that move you toward your goals. Quit everything else, to free up those resources so you can pursue your goals and stop sticking to things that slow you down.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Commercial brain-training regimens like Cogmed, Lumosity, and BrainHQ have attracted many who desire to improve their memory and increase their focus; Lumosity alone claims 100 million registered users in 195 countries.

At the highest speed I can sustain on the hills, about 14 minutes for a mile, I do not even try to think of anything else.

In a related vein, the third principle: whenever possible, we should seek to productively alter our own state when engaging in mental labor.

Parents and teachers often believe they have to get kids to stop moving around before they can focus and get down to work, Schweitzer notes; a more constructive approach would be to allow kids to move around so that they can focus.

Knowing your destination is half the journey.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you

Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.