Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
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- One hour of focus can undo days of distraction.
- One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.
- One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
- Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
- Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
- People will plateau at exactly the same level that their selectivity plateaus.
- Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
- Pursue your goals relentlessly, or give them up. It’s the in-between that kills.
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
- Remember that you have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the dramas of others subtracts from your strength.
- Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
- Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.
- Social media says: do everything, everywhere, all at once. Reality says: focus on doing one or two things extremely well, in one place, consistently, over a long period of time.
- Somebody out there thinks you’re an idiot. Somebody out there thinks you’re brilliant. Ignore them both and carry on.
- Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.
- Success at anything will always come down to this: focus and effort. And we control both.
- Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
- Successful minds work like a gimlet,--to a single point.
- Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
- Take your eyes off what you lost.
- Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
- That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
- The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
- The ability to concentrate is a skill that must be trained.
- The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
- The ability to focus is becoming the scarcest commodity of the 21st century.
- The ability to focus without distraction is a superpower in the age of distraction.
- The answer is simply that you have never focused your desires into one great dominating desire.
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
- The biggest decision you make daily is what to focus on.
- The cost of distraction is deeper than lost time – it’s lost depth.
- The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman, and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired.
- The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.
- The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true
- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.