Quotes About Focus

I think anytime you have expectations for your team and for yourself and you have goals that you want to accomplish you can't overlook the small stuff and the baby steps.

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

I've got to take measured steps and avoid the pitfalls. Life in general has pitfalls, but being a boxer there's even more.

I don't really pay attention to the long-term, I take short steps - that is what I have done through my whole career, from non-league to the Premier League.

Pseudoscientists typically focus on only one explanation for a phenomenon, quickly brushing aside alternative explanations. And, in their desire to support their belief, they are willing to accept flimsy, oftentimes anecdotal, evidence.

Overall, Zinni's rules read like an updating of how to apply the Marine Corps culture to today's conflicts: Stay loose. Stay focused. Keep it simple. And be honest.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

This tendency to focus too heavily on the occasional success is helped along by an asymmetry in the way we evaluate success and failure. A single success generally does more to confirm a strategy's effectiveness than a single failure does to disconfirm it. Indeed, successes tend to be taken as prima facie evidence that the strategy is effective.

Dios es lo más glorioso en lo que nuestras mentes pueden fijarse, lo más atrayente. Los pensamientos acerca de Él deberían tragarse otros pensamientos, ya que no son dignos ni de compartir con Él el mismo día.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

Clarity affords focus.

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

Well-honed attention—as evidenced in trackers, mindfulness practitioners, athletes, hunters, artists, writers, ornithologists, and more—is something quite different. It can be focused narrowly or distributed across the entire visual field at will. Its focus can be internal (on the contents of mind) or external, and it can be sustained for long periods. It is penetrating, quick, and efficient, picking up signals that are altogether unseen by the untrained eye.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

So few people are really aware of their thoughts. Their minds run all over the place without their permission, and they go along for the ride unknowingly and without making a choice.

If you are not in control of your thoughts then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power, regardless of whatever else you accomplish. If you are not aware of the thoughts that you are thinking in each moment, then you are the rider with no reins, with no power over where you are going. You cannot control what you are not aware of. Awareness must come first.

The problem with patience and discipline is that developing each of them requires both of them.

Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.