Quotes About Focus

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

You can have anything you want. You just have to decide what you want and do everything it takes to get it!

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually,' just do it and correct course along the way.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.