Focus Quotes - Page 3

Making the attempt is what matters most.

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!

T.F. Hodge

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

John Manning

A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus.

DaVyshka

The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.

Chris Matthews

In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell."Page 68

Steven Pressfield

Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.

Brodi Ashton

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

John Waire

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

Jane Ripley

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

John Maxwell

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.

Eraldo Banovac

Focus on doing small things consistently rather than a big thing once a while

Dhaval Gajera

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

Joseph Epstein

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

Joseph Epstein

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The opposite of busy in today's world is sustained, focused attention. It is deep engagement in activities that really matter to us, or in conversations with those we care about.

Tony Crabbe

To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want.

Jennifer Senior

Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Virginia Woolf

be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You are more focus when you confront.

Sunday Adelaja

His hands go to my waist—my waist! And they feel so right. I like this closeness. Maybe I like it too much. A guy has never been this close to me. Never. And I can’t believe it’s happening, even if it is to keep from being arrested.My heart beats frantically. Isaiah is hot and scary and hot. Why on earth would a guy like him want to be anywhere near a girl like me?It’s the adrenaline rush. That’s what it is. I like how he feels because I’m still experiencing the adrenaline rush from Isaiah’s NASCAR driving skills. His arm shifts, and I love how that movement causes his muscles to flex.Stop it, Rachel. It’s not real. Focus.

Katie McGarry

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

Emmanuel Ayensu

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

Emmanuel Ayensu

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

James Carl Nelson

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

James Carl Nelson

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

Greg Pincus

It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.

Abhishek Ratna

i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?

Nikki Rowe

It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery.

Charles Dickens

We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.

Nana Awere Damoah

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

Kevin DeYoung

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

Paul C. Nagel

We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.

Jay Woodman

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

Kevin DeYoung

If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated.

Sheryl Campbell

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Sherry Turkle

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Sherry Turkle

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Patrick Hennessey

Sometimes we feel that the busier we are, the more important we are--as though our busyness defines our worth...We can spend a lifetime whirling about at a feverish pace, checking off list after list of things that in the end really don't matter.That we do a lot may not be so important. That we focus the energy of our minds, our hearts, and our souls on those things of eternal significance--that is essential.--Joseph B. Wirthlin

Carolyn J. Rasmus

Keep focus to realize the goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you focus on expands.

Brownell Landrum

Every morning, you have a choice either to make your day relaxed or stressful. To be thankful for what you have or to complain about what you don’t have. To count your achievements and celebrate them, or to dwell on the mistakes of your past and feel bad. To take action to make things better, or to continue on in mediocrity.

Maddy Malhotra

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

Shannon L. Alder

Focus is a mental commitment to winning against all odds. Focus is beyond putting things together in order to reach a goal. Focus is longing for the goal; it is conditioning self to connect with the forces needed to achieve said goal. Focus is beyond toiling day and night, it is the mind's eye seeing only the harvests of the future and oblivious of the challenges of the present.

Asuni LadyZeal

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

David Clark

He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

Barbara W. Tuchman

If you focus your mind on “not wanting” something, you are giving energy to and manifesting the thing you do not want. If you worry or fixate on a problem, you are channeling energy to maintain the problem. Focus thoughts and beliefs on the solution, and do not fixate on the problem.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

The importance of cultivating assumption of the best intentions in others cannot be over-estimated. Fostering this principal of, "goodness of intent,” and committing to seeing others and the world through this lens makes for a successful, happy field of vision. This enables us to put our focus and energy to positive, productive outcomes. It lends to a spirit of cooperation and encouragement which is highly effective and satisfying for most people most of the time. That being said, these "rose colored glasses," as vibrant and pleasing as they are, must not become an excuse to look the other way when something needs a different focus, or fixed. We must not let them become blinders which are obviously ineffective, often negative, and occasionally dangerous.

Connie Kerbs

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Charles Dickens

Focus your heart-felt intuition onto things that really matter to you.

Steven Redhead

Focus your intuitive thoughts to identify what is truly worth pursuing.

Steven Redhead

It is what you pursue that gains focus in your life.

Steven Redhead

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.

Joshua Foer

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

Philip Zaleski

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

Vivek Naik

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