Quotes About Focus

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state.

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, "Engage!"

Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

maybe an hour in the morning or at night and just dedicate it to that skill you have. Read books about it. Take courses to excel at it. Promise. In the next five or six months, you will be better at it than most people. Your confidence will go up and you will no longer compare yourself to others or try to be good at something just for the sake of proving to others that you are confident. You will have finally discovered what your life will be about.

Many bloggers change their topic multiple times before they find the right one. The disadvantage of a keyword-centric address is that you're stuck with a name—even if you shift focus with your site. The advantage of a branded domain is that you can change topics and still keep the name.

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It's effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

Step #2: Focus on One Habit at a Time

because it's almost impossible to change multiple habits at the same time.

University, over 40 percent of what you do on a daily

Because your core values can serve as a measuring stick for all of your choices and decisions in life , keeping you focused on the person you want to be and the life you wish to lead.

Attention is an alchemy that turns dullness to beauty and anxiety to ease.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

this early learning of how to do things one tiny little step at a time. I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book ... I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

imagine a line drawn through the main line of action—be it a moving car, a football field, or the eye line of a conversation.

The standard series of f-stops, or f-numbers, is: 1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32

Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.

I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.