Quotes About Focus

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

when the assignment does not spell out what the student is to learn. There are no standards, no objectives, and no activities done for a specified reason. It's like shooting arrows blindfolded hoping that one will hit a non-existing target.

You cannot possibly remember anything you do not observe; and it is extremely difficult to observe or remember anything that you do not want to remember, or that you are not interested in remembering.

Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

Alles waar je je wil en je aandacht op richt, wordt onzichtbaar, onbereikbaar, dat is tenminste mijn ervaring. Je ziet de dingen pas werkelijk uit je ooghoeken, als je eigenlijk ergens anders mee bezig bent. Het is net of de werkelijkheid zich dan gepasseerd voelt, het niet neemt en zich aan je opdringt.

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

A mind that is determined to succeed can never fail to achieve.

Give your goals a deadline and everything will fall in place. Goal Setting is the key to achieve success in anything you do.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

All too often, people make the mistake of focusing too much on the content of their

If you're not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you're likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what's really important to you. And

typically sit for 18 months at a stretch,

While at the wheel, you are simultaneously dealing with issues in time, space, physics, and potentially, life and death – and all the while, you're wondering who's bringing the guacamole.

John Milton rose every day at 4 a.m. to write Paradise Lost. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire took Edward Gibbon 26 painstaking years to complete. Ernest Hemingway is said to have reviewed The Old Man and the Sea manuscript 80 times before submitting if for publication. It took Noah Webster 36 years to compile Webster's Dictionary.

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

Pimpin dan kendalikanlah jiwa dengan baik, karena amat liarnya, dan beri ingatlah, karena dia lekas lupa.

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.