Quotes About Focus

he could not give her any attention. She complained, he heard her complaining, but he could do nothing about it. He was single-minded, he always had been

All your energy. Not on fighting the old. But on building the new. The secret of change.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. She hangs it on

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

After the first attempt of the Nike Breaking2 project Eluid Kipchoge ran the fastest marathon in history 2:00:25. After he finished he said this. The world now is only 25 seconds away - Eluid Kipchoge

Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions."

Alex, you cannot understand the meaning of productivity unless you know what the goal is. Until then, you're just playing a lot of games with numbers and words." "Okay, then it's market share," I tell him. "That's the goal." "Is it?" he asks. He steps into the plane. "Hey! Can't you tell me?" I call to him. "Think about it, Alex. You can find the answer with your own mind," he says.

En todos lados, el mejoramiento ha sido interpretado como sinónimo de ahorro en costos. La gente se concentra en reducir el gasto de operación como si fuera el indicador mas importante.

And he's saying, "Alex, I have come to the conclusion that productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

We had physical constraints that helped us to focus our attention, to zoom in on the real policy constraint. That isn't the case in the division. Over there we have excess capacity going through our ears. We have excess engineering resources that we succeed so brilliantly in wasting. I'm sure that there is no lack of markets. We simply don't know how to put our act together to capitalize on what we have.

When you are productive you are accomplishing something in terms of your goal

productividad es el acto de acercar a la empresa a su meta. Las acciones que acercan a una compañía a su meta son productivas. Las acciones que no acercan a la compañía a su meta no son productivas.

bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that

Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal.

Lai Tsin immediately set about his work.

Vision is the starting point of victory.

time she was consumed with

Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.

The tactic seemed to work, so he stuck to the same theme for the next few days, but there was only so much cryptography he could teach before it started squeezing out everything else.

All that power they'd squirreled away had needed to be released, focused, channeled.

He felt eyes on him. He didn't turn to see if they were Jane's.

With my eyes blank, with my body numb and distant, with a mind full of the cold spinning depths of space, I focus all my attention, reach out an aim that's no more than a vision, and point.

You blank your mind and let the words come out, crisp and even. You don't think about what they mean, and you sure as hell don't about what you're saying.