Focus On The Task Quotes

#1. Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

Kirsten Beyer

#2. Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

Erik Spoelstra

#3. Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.

Mike Zimmer

#4. It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.

Daniel Goleman

#5. I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Terry Matthews

#6. Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

Aaron D. O'Connell

#7. What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Bill Parcells

#8. Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Jeremy Renner

#9. The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

Nina Jacobson

#10. During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#11. If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Barry Eisler

#12. You can achieve anything in life if you focus on one task at a time.

Jay Author

#13. It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#14. Almost religiously, I step away from everything and close my eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments. It helps solidify my focus and aligns everything in my body to take care of the task at hand - which is winning, of course.

Amanda Beard

#15. Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

Vivek Naik

#16. With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on the task at hand and enjoy my experiences and day.

Allison Holker

#17. When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.

Franklin Gillette

#18. Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Instead, focus only on the task at hand.

Siddhattha Gotama

#19. To swim against waves is always an impossible task, but if you manage to do you will reach the shore where nobody even thought of. - Dr. Karan M Pai

Dr Karan M Pai

#20. Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

Tom Rath

#21. Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

Tony Horton

#22. When you focus your efforts, you develop laser-like energy to cut through any task.

Amey Hegde

#23. Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.

Elizabeth Armstrong

#24. In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life's Task.

Robert Greene

#25. The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

Damian Lewis

#26. Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#27. I focus on the moment and move from task to task.

Tyler Seguin

#28. Let go of your worries and focus
only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true .
I know,
Glaedr

Christopher Paolini

#29. Over time, stress hormones from multitasking can damage memory centers in the brain. Focus on one task at a time for better efficiency and memory.

Peter Lawrence

#30. DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

Barbara Sher

#31. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.

David Brooks

#32. In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

Harrison Ford

#33. Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

Idina Menzel

#34. I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

Tamara Tunie

#35. Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?

Greg Hurwitz

#36. Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks

Sunday Adelaja

#37. By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

Stephen Covey

#38. To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on - not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

Lori McWilliam Pickert

#39. Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

Tom Peters

#40. The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

George W. Bush

#41. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

#42. The knowledge of "Where am I going?" comes during the process of implementation and dedication to the task

Sunday Adelaja

#43. To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

R.C. Sproul

#44. Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.'

Rick Barry