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Quotes About Self-focus

Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams, you take time away from your own.
~ Robin S. Sharma
It's done by everyone minding their own business
~ Lewis Carroll
Don't wait to be reminded to focus on your own development.
~ Jim Knight
Aren't you interested in anything except yourself? Not much.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.
~ Usain Bolt
my joy. That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You've got to get free from that.
~ Joel Osteen
There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'
~ Tori Bowie
I don't focus on anyone but myself.
~ Israel Adesanya
Consumerism has become a hypnosis that keeps our culture immature, as it keeps us overly focused on ourselves and on material desires, instead of on cultivating deeper soul richness. Corn
~ Sandra Ingerman
The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.
~ Harriet Lerner
His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
~ Anthony Powell
I focus on myself and getting better every day.
~ Caris LeVert
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
~ Alan Cumming
18. The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. (Is this fair? Is this the right thing to do?) <…> not to be distracted by their darkness. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everyone, she understood, was mainly and mostly interested in themselves.
~ Elizabeth Strout
A man that is busy, and inquisitive, is commonly envious. For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure, in looking upon the fortunes of others. Neither can he, that mindeth but his own business, find much matter for envy. For envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home: Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.
~ bacon francis xi
I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.
~ Chloe Kim
Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3
~ Lecrae Moore
To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
~ Steve Prefontaine
For everybody wanting to make herself counted you have to put your success before you.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.
~ Jenna Johnson
If I make history, I don't need to blab about it. My first concern is not 'making history,' it's myself and becoming world champion. That's all I care about.
~ Marty Scurll
self-preoccupation tends to be tied to anxiety),
~ Scott Stossel
Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.
~ Louise Rennison