Quotes About Focus

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

The very circumstances of our lives—so constant and so humdrum and routine, and yet the things that truly constitute the will of God for us each day—are also the very things that serve so to distract us, precisely because we are so involved in them, and cause us to lose sight, however momentarily, of this great truth.

Many persons wonder why they don't amount to more than they do, have good stuff in them, energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

That is why it is often such a relief when the talk turns from "general topics" to a man's own hobby. It is like turning from the landscape in the parlor to the ploughed field outdoors. It is a return to the three dimensional world, after a sojourn in the painter's portrayal of his own emotional response to his own inattentive memory of what he imagines he ought to have seen.

If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.

Otra cosa más, chico, que tienes que recordar: lo que importa no es cómo empieza una historia. Ni cómo termina. -¿Entonces qué? -Lo que pasa en medio.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

Para ver claro, basta con cambiar la dirección de la mirada. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

La atención trabaja al servicio de los esquemas que tenemos. No es libre, sino esclava de las creencias. Vemos lo que nos conviene, sacrificamos el todo, lo real, por aquellas partes o trozos de información que concuerdan con nuestra motivación básica.

fíjate en lo que se dice y no en quien lo dice.   El

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

It's possible to work hard, and yet be lazy. If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

In one of his lectures on creativity, the comedian John Cleese talked about the need to find one's own "tortoise enclosure"—that19 sheltered, quiet place where you can go for extended periods to escape from the distractions of the outside world so that you can think without interruption.

One of the difficult early challenges at this stage is to make a commitment to one idea. At the wide-open What If stage of inquiry, one tends to ask many questions, to explore multiple possibilities—from practical to far-out ideas. But when it comes time to act on an idea, you have to narrow possibilities and converge on the one deemed worthy of being taken to the next level.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

You only have to do a very few things right in your life–so long as you don't do too many things wrong.