Carlos Carvalhal Quotes

Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.

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

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

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

I am selective about what I give my time to.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

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.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

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

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.