Quotes About Focus

Take a deep breath and focus on your purpose—your Yes—in this situation. Ask yourself what you really want and what is really important here. In other words, shift from being reactive and focused on No, to being proactive and focused on Yes.

She began the conversation with Tom by acknowledging his work and then focused on the problem at hand, sticking strictly to the facts:

If, however, you would like to see the behavior change, it is more effective not to attack the person outright but to focus hard on the problematic behavior.

A behavioral proposal focuses on what you'd like the other to do, not on who you'd like the other to be.

By pausing, if only for a few seconds and taking a few slow, deep breaths, we can begin to slow down our heart rate and relax our tensed muscles. We can then focus more effectively on what response will best advance our interests.

Your repetition can be intentional. You can use the same anchor phrase freshly each time, renewed by focusing on your underlying intention— the deeper Yes that lies within you. You can also humanize the repetition with a smile or acknowledgment.

Effective negotiation requires a persistent focus on what is most important.

There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.

A stubborn man can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Life is too short to allow little things to fret.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' DR. JOHNSON

Painting is complete as a distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body more entirely absorbs the mind.

in painted quiet and concentration

The great lesson we learn from life is when, and when not be, in the centre of things

You can't ride two horses with one behind.

Don't look back, Satchel Paige said, something may be gaining on you.

I was taught by Danny Simon to rely on my own judgment, and I don't like to waste precious time on what can easily become a distraction.

Los pendejos negocian discutiendo, quienes realmente quieren lo que quieren se callan el hocico y ponen manos a la obra.