Protect Your Focus at All Costs Quotes
Attention is the new battleground, and everything wants a piece of yours. The man who guards his focus like money produces work the distracted cannot touch. This Productivity path holds history's strongest quotes on defending your attention. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging.”
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
“You become what you give your attention to.”
“Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.”
“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.”
“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.”
“Concentration is the ability, through habit and practice, to control your attention and focus it on a given problem until you've solved it.”
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.”
“Anything you're not saying no to is yes.”
“The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having.”
“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
“You can't call something a distraction unless you know what it's distracting you from.”
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.”
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.”
“Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.”
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
“Praise in public, criticize in private.”
“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.”
“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.”
“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.”
“Time is money.”
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
“What you pay attention to pays attention to you.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.”
“Guard well your spare moments.”
“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
“The greatest lesson I've learned is to stay focused on what you're trying to achieve”
“If an action will take less than two minutes, it should be done at the moment it is defined.”
“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”
“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.”
“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
“Good strategy requires leaders who are willing and able to say no to a wide variety of actions and interests.”
“Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time.”
“You have to protect your time, so you can do what is truly important.”
“You can only feel good about what you're doing when you know what you're not doing.”
“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.”
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”
“Even a short pencil is more reliable than the longest memory.”
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
“The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back.”
“The key to success is to focus on what you can control and ignore what you can't”
“Ambition and desire are the chief factors that enter into the act of successful concentration.”
“If it takes less than two minutes, then do it now.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.”
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.”
“I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.”
“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.”
