Focus Quotes

"Competition is an easy way to experience flow, but it is a cheap trick " "Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat." "The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be" "Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best " "I don’t care about three years ago. I don’t care about two years ago. I don’t care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week." "I don't want to be irrelevant because I do too much of one thing." "Sometimes you need to slow down in order to be able to speed up." "Our appointment with life is in the present moment." "Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head." "The beginning is the most important part of the work." "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." "Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head" "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" "Discipline trumps conviction." "We’re more interested in making things happen than in making our name known." "The most valuable resource in the modern economy is attention" "Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements " "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way" "The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'" "Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."