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Quotes About Focus

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things. I can no longer tell the sky from the sea, but I can hear the waves. A loss of sight; a gain of insight.
~ Jodi Picoult
Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.
~ Jodi Picoult
When you don't keep looking back its that much easier not to trip and fall.
~ Jodi Picoult
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
~ Joe Hyams
Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.
~ Joe Hyams
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
~ Joe Hyams
A nagging focus on time management makes us want to increase the speed of our lives. Maintaining a focus on priority management helps us recognize the need to slow down. When our use of time is built around well-defined priorities, life is less a question of how much we can get done and more a question of whether something is worth doing at all.
~ Joe Jordan
The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing (..) You see, but you do not observe.
~ Joe Navarro
We may stick out the tongue (usually to the side) as we focus assiduously on a task (for example when basketball great Michael Jordan goes up for a dunk)
~ Joe Navarro
Commandment 9: Knowing how to distinguish between comfort and discomfort will help you to focus on the most important behaviors for decoding nonverbal communications.
~ Joe Navarro
If you are observationally "challenged," do not despair. You can overcome your weakness in this area if you are willing to devote time and effort to observing your world more conscientiously.
~ Joe Navarro
Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
When you focus on the peace behind the problem, you begin to clean up the perceptions creating and attracting the problem.
~ Joe Vitale
The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.
~ Johannes Kepler
Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.
~ John Adams
Jakmile víÅ¡, co chceÅ¡, musíÅ¡ být pÃ…â"¢ipraven obÄ›tovat tomu vÅ¡echno. ÓiÅ¡i JoÅ¡io
~ Unknown
What is my purpose here? I may say, I just sat down to write, but I am not deceived. I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.
~ John Banville
I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.
~ John Bevere
We fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen" (2 Corinthians 4:18 TEV). That which is unseen is the Word of God. His Word is just and accurate.
~ John Bevere
So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step" (verse 26 NLT). That is exactly what every human being should do—run with certainty and purpose to win. We are not competing against others, only ourselves.
~ John Bevere
I believe this angel cries out, What is this that You are so interested in and fondly affectionate toward? What is that little thing that is constantly on Your mind-the total focus of Your plans?
~ John Bevere
Discouragement occurs in deserts or battles from focusing on ourselves rather than on God and our mission.
~ John Bevere
fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out.
~ John Bevere
What we don't keep in focus before us eventually fades.
~ John Bevere