Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
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- The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.
- The greater the success, the more it was due to one thing: focus.
- The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
- The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.
- The last thing we learn in life is to put first things first.
- The less time you fixate on everyone else, the more time you have to focus on yourself.
- The little done vanishes from the sight of him who looks forward to what is still to do.
- The main thing is to keep the main thing a main thing.
- The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.
- The more concerned we become over the things we can’t control, the less we will do with the things we can control.
- The more we say yes, the more complex life gets.
- The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.
- The most successful people I know are rarely extraordinary. They do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency while everyone else is distracted by literally everything.
- The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders--these are the masters of victory.
- The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
- The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation.
- The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
- The same effort that wins a small success would, rightly directed, have won a great success.
- The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- The secret of success is focus of purpose.
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
- The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
- The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
- The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view.
- The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
- The tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.Brennan ManningSourced
- The trouble with letting trivial things ruin your life is that they keep getting more trivial.
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.
- The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default.
- There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.
- There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
- There’s a reason race horses wear blinders. Focus only on what’s in front of you. You’ll get through it. Keep going.
- There’s a whole bunch of things I don’t know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence.
- Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
- Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
- Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.