Quotes About Focus

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaning that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.

organize your knowledge so that you can turn your plans into power.

Barnes succeeded because he chose a definite goal, placed all his energy, all his will power, all his effort, everything, back of that goal.

Select your goal and make good, deep, wide mental paths leading straight to it.

Napoleon Hill refers to this method as concentration, but today it is most often called creative visualization, and it is the autosuggestion technique widely taught by contemporary motivational experts.

He did not say, "I will keep my eyes open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want in the Edison organization." He said, "There is but one thing in this world that I am determined to have, and that is a business association with Thomas A. Edison.

The men of greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures; men who have learned the art of sex transmutation.

I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want.

The five fundamental steps that must be taken by all who succeed are: Choice of a definite goal to be attained Development of sufficient power to attain your goal Perfection of a practical plan for attaining your goal Accumulation of specialized knowledge necessary for the attainment of your goal Persistence in carrying out the plan

Whatever we want in our outward life in material expression, we must first build into our mental life, into our Ideals, Purposes and Will.

For you to have success, you – the person that's reading this right now – for you to have success, you have to be insane.

Definiteness of purpose.

Concentration

the habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

One of America's most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision. When asked why he did this, he replied, "With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

Concentration is the ability to think as you wish to think, the ability to control your thoughts and direct them to a definite end, and the ability to organize your knowledge into a plan of action