T. Boone Pickens Quotes

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

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

The F-word here is focus.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

If you start thinking about eventualities, you lose your focus, and you can soon forget about it.

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path.

We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.