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Quotes About Focus

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
~ Albert Einstein
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.
~ Ayn Rand
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
~ Meryl Streep
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Let us see God before man every day.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.
~ Ted Williams
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
~ Watchman Nee
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
~ William George Jordan
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
~ Dale Carnegie
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
~ Francis Bacon
With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.
~ Gloria Naylor
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
~ Charles Edison
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
~ Francis Bacon
You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.
~ Gerry Cooney
The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.
~ Paul Evdokimov
For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.
~ Philip Kapleau
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
~ Poul Anderson
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
~ Ray Lewis
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.
~ Russell M. Nelson
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
~ Unknown