Quotes About Focus

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.