Protect Your Focus at All Costs Quotes

“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”

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

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

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

“Time is money.”

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

“Guard well your spare moments.”

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.”

“If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now.”

“If an action will take less than two minutes, it should be done at the moment it is defined.”

“Praise in public, criticize in private.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Starve your distractions, feed your focus.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Good strategy requires leaders who are willing and able to say no to a wide variety of actions and interests.”

“Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”

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

“Where focus goes, energy flows.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”