Quotes About Focus

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream. If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles. Then, pounce.

Few things are impossible if you know what needs to be done,

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. Vera Wang

Scientific investigation, narrowly conceived, does not prove materialism. Rather, materialism arises from confusing two distinct moves: (1) the narrow scientific strategy of focusing on what is material and (2) the claim that the narrow focus is all that there is.

Core Purpose: the one word/idea/speech driving the business 2.   BHAG®: the one 10- to 25-year goal for the company 3.   Profit per X: the one overarching KPI representing the core economic engine of the enterprise 4.   Brand Promise: the one most important measurable promise (of three) representing the brand 5.   The Critical Number: the one key driver for the year and the quarter

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

I now know the same secret that Michelle does: in order to have it all we can't do it all.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

The magic wand that can spread fairy dust on everything you hear, touch, and see is called attention.

Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?

You can't keep putting things off by grilling beards

If you were to skip your time with God, would you be more concerned about missing the mark or missing God?

When there's time for everything, there's value in nothing.'

Values are the chosen limits that allow our lives to deepen rather than dissipate.

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

This is what breath meditation is about: watching your breath, straying off, realizing it, and gently returning. Over and over again. Like I said, meditation is a practice.

Your experience of life is determined by where you focus your attention. If you focus on content, i.e., the thoughts, images, and feelings arising right now, your attention is lost in a world of judging things as good, bad, or neutral—a real roller-coaster ride.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.