Tim Ferriss on Focus Quotes

"Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Focus on the few things that do."

"The biggest distraction is the one inside your head; silence it by taking action."

"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To invest it with them is self-destructive."

"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important."

"Selective ignorance is a prerequisite for high-level focus."

"Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness."

"Stop trying to do everything and start doing the right things."

"Poisonous people do not deserve your time. Protecting your energy is essential for maintaining your passion."

"The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing."

"Clarity of vision comes from removing the noise, not adding more information."

"Limit your 'to-do' list to the two or three most important items. If it's more than that, you're just being busy."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment, but focus is the engine."

"Selective ignorance is often necessary for high performance."

"Focus on the few things that matter and ignore the rest."

"If you want to be more productive, you have to become more selective."

"Creativity requires a lack of distraction."

"If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities."

"You are the average of the five people you associate with most. Surround yourself with passionate people."

"If you have more than three priorities, you have none."

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

"Focus on the critical few and ignore the trivial many."

"To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular."

"Multi-tasking is a myth. You are just task-switching and losing 40% of your productivity."

"Focus on the 20% of activities that drive 80% of the results. Scaling is about ruthlessly eliminating the rest."

"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is—here’s the clincher—boredom."