Quotes About Focus

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

In order to succeed, you must know what you are doing, like what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.

Don't let yesterday take too much of today

Don't Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

There are certain books that I mean to read and keep stacked by my bedside. I even take them on trips. Some of my books should be awarded their own frequent-flier miles, they've traveled so much. I take these volumes on flight after flight with the best of intentions and then end up reading anything and everything else. (Sky Mall! Golf Digest!)

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

She felt whatever emotions she felt, but feeling was never a useful substitute for doing, and she never let the former get in the way of the latter. If anything, she used her emotions to motivate her and help her concentrate. The emphasis for her was always on doing what needed to be done.

was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.

There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house—be it taking out the trash or cleaning your room—and that was to have your face buried in a book.

at about page twenty or so, the magical thing occurred that happens only with the very best books: I became absorbed and obsessed and entered the "Can't you see I'm reading?" mode.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

When the number of options available is limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and get on with life. To behave otherwise is to waste precious time and energy.

Marcus Aurelius: "Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.")

Marcus advises us to perform with resoluteness the duties we humans were created to perform. Nothing else, he says, should distract us. Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.