Andy Stanley Quotes

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

Focusing is about saying No.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

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.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

First things first, second things never.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

Focusing is all about saying no

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

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

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

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

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.