Quotes About Focus

Vision must be present for creativity to flourish.

The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.

It was impossible to fight any battle without purpose. It was your anchor. Your focus. The place you could fasten everything you had to remember.

important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies.

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness.

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.

What works is making a vivid, concrete plan: "Tomorrow during my break, I'll get a cup of tea, close the door to my office, and call the graduate school." Or, in another case: "On Wednesday morning, right after I get up and brush my teeth, I'll sit at my desk and start writing my report.

It might be easier to mobilize for action if I felt better, but it doesn't matter. The plan is the plan.

I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it...

everything else fell away,

He is ten feet away from the wire and his eyes are on the prize and he lifts his arms up in a V—ten feet turns into two feet—and he unclips his helmet—two feet turns into ten inches—and

As long as she would have him, the rest of the world could go hang.

Intention without discipline is useless.

What you focus on is what you will create in your life. What you truly believe you are, you will become.

I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you.

with a keen eye to take in every detail, we are to focus on who he [God] is, see the world through his eyes, love what he loves, grieve what he hates, and join his cause.

A common-place book is a technology of resistance against getting lost on the urgent surface of life.

I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Come now, ladies. That's enough," he told them. "We have serious work to do here.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.