Quotes About Concentration

At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress.

When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well.

In order to be able to put the principle of The ONE Thing to work, you can't buy into the lie that trying to do two things at once is a good idea. Though multitasking is sometimes possible, it's never possible to do it effectively

put up a sheet of paper that said, "Until My ONE Thing Is Done—Everything Else Is A Distraction!

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?

Over time, they will hire one or more buyer specialists to work the buyer side of the business and concentrate their energy on the high-return, high-leverage business of listings. (And once that is fine-tuned, they may then hire a listing agent to work the seller side as well.)

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet amid all of this we still assume we can rise above it and do what has to be done within our deadlines.

The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results" or "The Success Habit Will Get Me to My Goal.

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too. And the light came on.

São aqueles que se concentram só numa coisa de cada vez que avançam neste mundo.

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." —Steve Uzzell

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

Extraordinary results require focused attention and time.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere.

The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Mentally tough athletes know how to stay focused and deal with adversity.

With great athletes, their eyes aren't searchlights. They aren't even spotlights. They are laser beams.