Quotes About Focus

Patience is the discipline to we have that will enable us to reach the goals we aspire to achieve without taking the easy detour which leads to a dead end.

We need to stop focusing on the negative influences around us and focus on the positive impact we have on others.

The scarcest resource in journalism now is attention span.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.

Chess is life

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent.

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.

The key is not the "will to win" — everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Forget about style; worry about results.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them up one needs simply to focus one's eye and keep a steady hand. Writing focuses the eye; writing develops the steadiness of one's hand.

I begin to realize that the physical repetition can be a kind of meditation that transcends the simple goal of winning a race.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. So, for the greater part of my life, I have avoided Washington; and even now I rarely spend a day in that city which I do not look upon as a day practically thrown away.

The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.