Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It's hard to edit. It's hard to stay focused. And yet, we know we'll only do our best work if we stay focused. And so, you know, the hardest decisions we made are all the things not to work on, frankly.

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

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

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.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.