Robin Sharma Quotes

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

You do miracles if you concentrate your mind on one thing and one thing only.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Channel your energy. Focus.

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I just have to be very, very organised.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?