Mani S. Sivasubramanian quote: "Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals."

Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been mor...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Know Where You Want To Go - And Why.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much cons...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Create Your Own Personal Roadmap - For Your Life!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Think about the work you already do. Is it meaningful & challenging? Are you appreciated & r...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

... Make your work IMPORTANT. Important enough to ignore other things. mportant enough to decide to ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

It's harder to do work that matters than work that doesn't!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Efficiency is often the enemy of fun. It doesn't have to be.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Focus helps you do something. Distraction makes you avoid doing anything.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Multi-tasking is NOT an option
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

This award shows they have done so by upholding the traditional values of the game.
EHSAN MANI

The Zimbabwe team has demonstrated in recent series that it is not in a position to be competitive i...
EHSAN MANI

We don't want cricket reduced to a level where it turns into a hooligans' sport and the spirit of th...
EHSAN MANI

Very few people in the history of the game, either players or administrators, can be said to have ch...
EHSAN MANI

The papers and documents regarding the World Cup have just been sent to Cricket Australia. We have n...
EHSAN MANI

I wouldn't like to speculate on how much money it would cost us, but I know it would be substantial.
EHSAN MANI

All test playing countries, including England, have given a binding commitment to each other that po...
EHSAN MANI

We all took positions in the council and argued for the cause. Politics and difference of opinion ha...
EHSAN MANI

These two players made outstanding all-round contributions to the fortunes of their sides so it is w...
EHSAN MANI

brand of aggressive batting thrilled crowds and television audiences alike and his success is reflec...
EHSAN MANI

The fact they finished level, both polling more than twice as many votes as the player in third plac...
EHSAN MANI

I React & fight with only the ones I truly love ,not everyone is special &privileged to be fought fo...
SUDHA MANI THAKUR

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY

I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN

So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER

To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S.

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR

But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR

People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S.

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM

Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI

Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S

Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S

...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO

உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S

If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR

Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
GEORGE S. PATTON

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
HARRY S TRUMAN

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo...
C. S. LEWIS

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives a...
S. TRUETT CATHY

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of th...
ULYSSES S. GRANT

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. LEWIS

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife,...
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I don't calculate my net worth.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. KALYANARAMAN

I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. TRUETT CATHY

We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
S. TRUETT CATHY

I cook chicken for a living.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our var...
S. TRUETT CATHY

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. TRUETT CATHY

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.
S. TRUETT CATHY

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can...
S. TRUETT CATHY

It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti...
S. TRUETT CATHY

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. TRUETT CATHY

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
S. TRUETT CATHY

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things...
S. TRUETT CATHY

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
S. TRUETT CATHY

We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti...
S. TRUETT CATHY

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.
S. TRUETT CATHY

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. JOSHI

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. JOSHI

My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. JOSHI

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ...
S. ROBSON WALTON

I was small but slow as a college tackle.
S. ROBSON WALTON

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -...
S. ROBSON WALTON

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ...
S. ROBSON WALTON

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the w...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically e...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than oth...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that pe...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related d...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age y...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the ...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our p...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures f...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people un...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it does...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful th...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the grea...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN

Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,...
S. J. ROZAN

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails...
S. J. ROZAN

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People...
S. J. ROZAN

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent...
S. J. ROZAN

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. ROZAN

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as...
S. J. ROZAN

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you op...
S. J. ROZAN

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
S. J. PERELMAN

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started...
S. J. PERELMAN

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. PERELMAN

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. PERELMAN

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are ...
S. J. PERELMAN

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON

Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON

My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON

If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON

If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON

You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE

This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the me...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the b...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

The brain abhors discrepancies.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort ...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.

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