Brian Mulroney Quotes

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.

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

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

The F-word here is focus.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.

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."

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

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

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.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

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

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

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.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.