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.”
“You become what you give your attention to.”
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.”
“You can't call something a distraction unless you know what it's distracting you from.”
“You are never more creative for new ideas than when you are almost done with an old one. ’What’s next’ will always look more interesting than ’what’s now.’”
“Nothing is more fatal to success than taking one’s job as a matter of course.”
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
“My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.”
“Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.”
“I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.”
“Highly focused people do not leave their options open. They select their priorities and are comfortable ignoring the rest. If you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything.”
“The myth is that there isn’t enough time. There is plenty of time. There isn’t enough focus with the time you have. You win by directing your attention toward better things.”
“Focus starts with elimination, improves with concentration, and compounds with continuation.”
“Few topics are worth your precious time. Choose what you pay attention to with great care.”
“The more you consume, the more powerful others become.”
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
“The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.”
“Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy.”
