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Quotes About Focus

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.
~ Ronaldo
I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
~ Darren Johnson
Sullivan distinguished between fear and anxiety. If a loud noise occurs, if hunger is unaddressed, if tensions of any sort increase, the baby becomes afraid. Fear actually operates as an integrating tendency; as it is expressed in crying and agitation, it draws the caregiver into an interaction that will soothe the baby and address the problem. Anxiety, in contrast, has no focus and does not arise from increasing tension in the baby herself. Anxiety is picked up from other people.
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
~ Stephen Baxter
his abilities, of course. He was always intending
~ Stephen Booth
What matters about creating alignment around a strategy is not the volume of communication, but its quality and precision.
~ Stephen Bungay
As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play . We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be present when your customers and team mebers most need you. And should you feel your enegery lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear - and make their day .
~ Stephen C. Lundin
As you enter this place of work please choose to make today a great day. Your colleagues, customers, team members, and you yourself will be thankful. Find ways to play. We can be serious about our work without being serious about ourselves. Stay focused in order to be there when your customers and team members most need you. And should you feel your energy lapsing, try this surefire remedy: Find someone who needs a helping hand, a word of support, or a good ear—and make their day.
~ Stephen C. Lundin
The whole of Chapter Six in the Bhagavad Gita is devoted to Krishna's teachings on this practice: "Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self," instructs Krishna. "When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
~ Stephen Cope
Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake of dharma.
~ Stephen Cope
I must concentrate all of my energies on the enfranchisement of my own sex! She had named and claimed her calling. Here is concentration of purpose. This declaration, as we shall see, unified her energy in extraordinary ways.
~ Stephen Cope
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
~ Stephen Covey
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'
~ Stephen Covey
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.
~ Stephen Covey
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited...
~ Stephen Dobyns
plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.
~ Stephen Few
Damn the future, right? It's right now that matters. When you don't have a fu- ture, it's always right now that means everything.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Altering sensory gating parameters are most easily accomplished in one of three ways, and we've already talked in some depth about the first one: 1) having a task that demands a greater focus on incoming sensory data flows. The others are: 2) regenerating a state similar to that which occurred during the first few years of life, or 3) by altering the nature of the gating channels themselves by shifting consciousness (which is somewhat different from re-generating developmental stages).
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
The sensory stimuli we encounter do not, in and of themselves, except under unusual circumstances determine whether or not we pay attention to them; we, ourselves, do. In fact novel stimuli of great intensity (which usually are not gated) will be gated if they do not conform to the nature of expected sensory inputs.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
In a similar way, the focus on the form of an object: which leg is larger on that chair, on that table, on that bed—which leaf shape is more oval among those three different plant species—disrupts subsequent meaning processing.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Deep fasting puts the body into a state that is normally only experienced during sleep, one in which the liver and other detoxification systems can focus exclusively on detoxification, repair, and regeneration.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
~ Stephen Hawking
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
~ Stephen Hunter