Quotes About Focus

Caring: The essence and central focus of nursing.

Election 2016. — I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.

I am constant to my purposes...

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail... Simplify, simplify.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

In college he had been too much engrossed with other things to listen to the arguments, or to be influenced by the general atmosphere of unbelief

Don't focus on what happened, focus on what you will do next.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

The perception of the opponent is always the target.

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Don't you want the guy who'll forget about all the other things in his life before he forgets about you?

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

A pitfall that most entrepreneurs face is that we become so absorbed in the day-to-day battle (and mind you, it's a glorious battle), that we lose sight of where we are and where we need to go. I believe an imperative for any entrepreneur is to work 'on' the business as much or more so than 'in' the business.

I have other time frames to worry about besides yours!