Quotes About Focus

If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.