Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
Other voices on Focus
- I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
- I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange?
- Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
- If everything is important, then nothing is.
- If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
- If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.
- If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no.
- If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.
- If there exists a secret of success, it lies, perhaps, in concentration more than in any other single element.
- If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
- If we grown-ups would only put into our daily tasks the interest and attention that the boy put into his game of marbles, we would "get the marble" oftener than we have been doing.
- If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
- If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
- If you don’t have your own goals, you’ll end up working towards someone else’s.
- If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.
- If you want to do more you have to commit to less. Raise the standards. Narrow the focus.
- If you want to find your direction in life, remove your misdirection.
- If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
- If you’re not saying “HELL YEAH!” about it, say “no.
- I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
- I’m optimistic because I only worry about what I can control. You’re pessimistic because you’re worried about everything you can’t.
- In a world of distraction, focusing is a superpower.Ryan HolidayCommonly attributed
- In its last analysis, the cause of all failure can be traced to the scattering of forces, and the cause of all achievement to the concentration of forces.
- In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.
- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
- In the twenty-first century, survival of the fittest means survival of the focused.
- Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.
- Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.
- Instead of worrying about everything that could go wrong, focus on everything that could go right.
- Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
- Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
- It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
- It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
- It is easy to learn something about every thing, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
- It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
- It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important.
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.
- It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.