Focus
334 quotes: 23 by Keith Craft, 311 from other voices.
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- You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else.
- You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
- You can’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the walls with 100 projects if you’re obsessed about doing something really well.
- You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
- You don’t need more time, you need more focus.
- You get your life back the moment you learn to say no to almost everything.
- You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
- You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
- You will move in the direction you are facing.
- You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
- You’re not accomplishing your more important goals because you’re unwilling to sacrifice your less important goals.
- We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.
- When first things are first, second things are not suppressed, but increased.C. S. LewisCommonly attributed