Quotes About Focus

Work on things you have control over. Work on you.

In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

If you don't have a mission statement, spend a few moments connecting with your inner compass and thinking about what really matters most in your life.

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference

learned to focus on truly important things, not just urgent things.

Management is a bottom line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish? In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Put First Things First).

we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up;

Associated with Habit 3: Put First Things First is the endowment of willpower. At the low end of the continuum is the ineffective, flaky life of floating and coasting, avoiding responsibility and taking the easy way out, exercising little initiative or willpower. And at the top end is a highly disciplined life that focuses heavily on the highly important but not necessarily urgent activities of life. It's a life of leverage and influence.

focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.

If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?

Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their efforts in the Circle of Concern. They focus on the weakness of other people, the problems in the environment, and circumstances over which they have no control.

One of the main things his research showed was that almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

Todo comienza con tener una mentalidad sin miedo. Ganar es 95% mental y 5% todo lo demás.

Recuerda, hoy es el mañana acerca del cual te preocupabas ayer. DALE CARNEGIE, ESCRITOR

A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

Concentrate on one task at a time and devote your full attention to it. Trying to accomplish two things at once usually produced double mediocrity. Something well done was something done with dedication.

He who runs after two hares at the same time, catches neither.

He told himself to hurry. Get it done. Indecision was what usually got you. He'd learned that early on from Malone. Be right. Be wrong. Doesn't matter. Just don't hesitate.

Absolute focus is the key to all great human achievement. Its opposite, preoccupation, is the enemy of all achievement.

Motivation requires a calm, centered leader who is focused on one thing, and only one thing.

A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don't allow him to fully focus.

I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were going to walk that two-by-four. But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today is the team that will win this game.

When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who you will be.