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Quotes About Focus

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mentality, that's something you should be able to control. Whether you are healthy or not, how fast you can run - they aren't things you can work on, but the mentality should be.
~ Martina Navratilova
Work. Study. Focus. Dedicate yourself to it and don't give up.
~ Mateus Ward
Focus on your work. Be the best you that you can be. Develop a thick skin and let things roll off your back. And keep a sense of humor!
~ Megan Alexander
If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.
~ Meister Eckhart
Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'
~ Merlin Mann
I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
~ Muhammad Ali
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
~ Nadia Boulanger
Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.
~ Nick Cave
Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
~ Peter Drucker
The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude.
~ Phil Mahre
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~ Orson Scott Card
I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.
~ Rashida Jones
Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
~ Ray Harryhausen
The work is more important than the reward.
~ Unknown
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
~ Richard Avedon
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
~ Richard Koch
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
~ Robert Genn
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.
~ Ron Conway
No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.
~ Russell Simmons
It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.
~ Sasheer Zamata
I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.
~ Scott Rolen