Protect Your Focus at All Costs Quotes

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

“Even a short pencil is more reliable than the longest memory.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.”

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”

“An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.”

“Focus is saying no to a thousand things”

“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”

“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

“Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“What you pay attention to pays attention to you.”

“Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.”

“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.”

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.”

“If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry”

“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.”

“The fears you run from run to you.”

“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”

“The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.”

“You can only feel good about what you're doing when you know what you're not doing.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

“The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.”

“Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.”

“I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.”

“What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.”

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

“All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me.”

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”

“Time is a created thing. To say I don't have time, is like saying, I don't want to.”

“Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.”

“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

“Ambition and desire are the chief factors that enter into the act of successful concentration.”

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.”

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

“The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back.”

“You have to protect your time, so you can do what is truly important.”

“I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“You become what you give your attention to.”

“Concentration is the ability, through habit and practice, to control your attention and focus it on a given problem until you've solved it.”

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning.”

“The greatest lesson I’ve learned is to stay focused on what you’re trying to achieve”

“Anything you're not saying no to is yes.”

“Where focus goes, energy flows.”

“Starve your distractions, feed your focus.”

“The key to success is to focus on what you can control and ignore what you can’t”

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

“Time is money.”