Richard G. Scott Quotes

If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Busy people are never busybodies.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

Beyond the touchline there is nothing.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.