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