Quotes About Focus

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Attention is no more than this - the power of giving your mind to what you are about

When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly.

A clear path to anything is more helpful than one that is not!

Less energy on emotions, more energy on solutions" is a useful perspective most employers would like all of their employees to employ.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. —Bruce Lee

Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention.

The quality of your life will depend entirely on the focus of your attention.

Rather than going from where we are to where we want to be, we need to remember to be where we are, here, now. We don 't need to go anywhere else or do anything else. We don't need to go from here to there; we need to return from there to here.

While some people cannot see the forest for the trees, others cannot see the trees for the forest. Sometimes we can more easily love the world than the ones whom God places in front of us.

Goals, conflict, and motivation should be so specific that you can write them down in a few words.

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

I was working too hard to be afraid.

Be present for your own life.

What this requires of us is that we don't get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully tangled up. It demands that we focus not only on what's happening in our stories, but also what our stories are about.

I'd made a plan: I would follow this road wherever it led me. I'd ignore all the others that crossed its path, no matter how intriguing or promising they looked.

You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

What a Business Strategy Should Do • Keep our focus on the customer, with an eye to the competition and the rest of the strategic environment • Provide our team with a continuing stream of options • Enable rapid switching between options • Encourage initiative at all levels—in particular, an execute-and-communicate ("shoot and scoot") mindset rather than one of ask-and-wait • Harmonize our efforts to achieve the future we have in mind.

And tell me, who will be more successful in life? The kid who knows all the chemical formulae or the one who knows teamwork, passion, discipline and focus?

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.