Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
Other voices on Focus
- It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something—chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
- It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people. It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain.
- It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Keep only the goal before your mind’s eye—and you'll win it!
- Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.
- Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
- Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
- Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
- Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
- Less clutter, more clarity. Fewer goals, deeper impact. This is the path to joy.
- Let nothing come between you and the light.
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
- Life gets easier when you don’t blame other people and focus on what you can control.
- Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.
- Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
- Look around and be distressed. Look within and be depressed. Look at Jesus and be at rest.
- Make it easy to do what matters and hard to do what doesn’t.
- Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Many a fortune has slipped through a man's fingers because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time.
- Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies.
- Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
- Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
- Moral: Keep your mind fixed on the thing you want--not on the thing you don't want.
- More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
- Most people aren’t faster than you, they’re just more consistently focused than you.
- Most people can’t handle boredom. That means they can’t stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they’re unhappy.
- Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.Tony RobbinsCommonly attributed
- Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
- My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
- My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
- My whole system of life is keeping at it. The task of life is not to see clearly in the distance but to do the task at hand.
- Never confuse movement with action.
- Never mind where you work; let your care be for the work itself.
- Never mistake activity for achievement.
- No one ever changed the world, created a new industry, or amassed a fortune due to their fast email response time.
- Nobody, however able, can gain the very highest success, except in one line. He may rise above others, but he will fall below himself.
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.