William Feather Quotes

I can't let distractions get in the way.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

For anything in your life, you have to be focused on what is the goal.

I can't even carpe 15 minutes in a row. So a whole diem is out of the question.