Ben Hunt-Davis > Quotes

“You get what you focus on. You don’t have to work harder; it’s not through doing more hours, it is by being more focused within those hours.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Every action and every inaction carries risk – it’s unavoidable.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“In order to win you have got to risk losing.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Never confuse feedback for a fact about who we are, it’s just an opinion.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Without passion a goal becomes a chore, without specificity a goal is simply a pipe-dream.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“A crazy goal needs to have emotional attachment.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“If we let go of worrying about risk we can more usefully focus our attention on figuring out which risks are crazy and which are useful.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Successful people don’t get fewer setbacks, they just deal with them well.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Why set goals? Because goals help you to: 1a.Have a sense of achievement 1b.Focus your energy 1c.Learn and grow”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“When you feel fear about taking a risk hit the pause button not the stop button.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“if he tried something and it didn’t work it was still progress to be celebrated:”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Today is going to be a good day, because I’m going to make it a good day.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“there’s also a lot to be said for making small, incremental changes that reap big dividends in the long term.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Focus on the process and success will take care of itself.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Get clear on your genuine motivators to accelerate your success.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“When the chips are down it’s amazing what we humans can do and yet all too often we pretend to ourselves that if things go wrong we won’t possibly be able to cope.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Your passion doesn’t have to be saintly, but it does have to be strong.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Reminding yourself of your original goal will help you to bounceback and get back on track.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“A win is in the past as soon as it has happened, so we need to measure ourselves in terms of our understanding of the process and our execution of the key variables.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Our attention is an incredibly powerful tool.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Will it make the boat go faster? Then do it!”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“We all have limited time, energy and headspace, so devote these precious resources into dealing with things inside your control and let go of anything you can’t do anything about.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Focus On What’s Important, Focus On Performance and Work Effectively With Others To Achieve Goals.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“what was their relevance, how could they help us and inform the way we worked together.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“The more I practise, the luckier I get.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“great goals are an expression of what is fundamentally important to us.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“When people feel nervous about a change they tend to assume the worst”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“We cannot avoid things going wrong. Even when we’ve prepared brilliantly, Fate can still vomit on our duvet.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“When you’re stuck your momentum stops, but if you use the goal as your guide you’re more likely to keep moving forwards.”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success

“Let go of knowing – let your goal be your guide”
― Ben Hunt-Davis, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?- Olympic-winning strategies for everyday success