Quotes About Concentration

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.

The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.

If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you'd stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you'd likely stop talking.

To do two things at once is to do neither." —Publilius Syrus

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

As a result, buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

Multitasking is a lie. It's a lie because nearly everyone accepts it as an effective thing to do. It's become so mainstream that people actually think it's something they should do, and do as often as possible. We not only hear talk about doing it, we even hear talk about getting better at it. More

It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Pareto points us in a very clear direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.

Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

Viva como um selo postal – cole-se num único objetivo até alcançá-lo." Josh

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions.

Hacer dos cosas a la vez es no hacer ninguna». Publilio Siro

You can actually give attention to two things, but that is what's called "divided attention." And make no mistake. Take on two things and your attention gets divided. Take on a third and something gets dropped.

With research overwhelmingly clear, it seems insane that—knowing how multitasking leads to mistakes, poor choices, and stress—we attempt it anyway Maybe it's just too tempting.

multitasking slows us down and makes us slower witted.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t.

Success demands singleness of purpose." — Vince Lombardi

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we're doing our most important work?

The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.