Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
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- And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.
- Any moment can be a meditation if you are in control of your attention.
- As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) is the art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?
- Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.Simone WeilCommonly attributed
- Attention paid to noise is focus stolen from purpose.
- Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.
- Avoid multiplicity of business; the man of one thing, is the man of success.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Be quick, but don’t hurry.
- Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
- Before you can win your heart’s desire, you’ve got to get clearly fixed in your mind’s eye what it is that you want.
- Being busy is cheap, focus is expensive.
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential.
- Busyness doesn’t produce high value.
- But to slide, glide, drift, loll, dawdle, with no definite objective point in mind, is to arrive at the point of Nowhere and to have your craft lie hopelessly becalmed on Mud Flats.
- Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.
- Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
- Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
- Concentration alone conquers.Charles BuxtonCommonly attributed
- Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.
- Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.
- Concentration is the secret of strength.
- Discern the vital few from the trivial many.
- Discipline is remembering what you want.
- Distraction kills focus. Overthinking kills action. Overconfidence kills humility.
- Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality.
- Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
- Do not say: "When I am free, I will study"; perhaps you will never be free.
- Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
- Doing nothing is harmless, but being busy doing nothing is not.
- Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and tooth-picks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
- Don’t be fooled by success and money. Don’t let anything come between you and your work.
- Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.
- Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.Zig ZiglarCommonly attributed
- Don't count the things you do, do the things that count.