Quotes About Focus

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

The smaller the group, the bigger the bull's-eye.

If they opt out, bless them—because you won't have to waste time, money, or hopes on them.

You must identify all your target markets. Then take careful aim at each.

You are now required to know what you want and where to get it. You are in charge of manufacturing your own luck.

Many people mistakenly try to decide if they want the job during the interview. Big mistake! This will distract you during the interview, and your lack of focus will be apparent to the interviewer. Focus on getting the offer.

What on my to do list is possibly more important than taking the time to anchor myself in my own presence?

Today I will focus on priorities and ignore the unimportant crap

When you find nothing, Morris said, it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something. Is that a Zen thing? Eve questioned. If not, it should be.

But I do not use the Internet, because I know myself too well. Once I got on the Internet I would get so distracted, I'd be basically giving one of my books to the Internet because I wouldn't be writing. I'd be playing on that machine. Interview by Associated Press Nov 03, 2010

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

The photographer frames the shot, writers frame their world.

Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.

When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entière à travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre idée que celle de leur travail ou de leur intérêt, et tout leur esprit semble être au bout de leurs bras.

I warn the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am unable to make myself clear to those who refuse to be attentive.

Cuando me he fijado en algunas páginas de un autor que debe ser leído con atención, mi espíritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.

I want to I might be good at. I really want to be good at something, to feel passionate about it.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.