eliminating distractions Quotes

If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

Focusing is all about saying no

Focusing is about saying No.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the songs. I just want to give us the opportunity to write great songs. Even our work in Haiti is limited by how good our songs are. We just need to get rid of as much of the bullshit as possible, so we can have a life, so we have something to write about.

I explained to my teammates I didn't want any distractions to the team.

Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well