Quotes About Focus

if you really want it, you'll keep at it.

In business, real discipline comes in saying no to the wrong opportunities." —Jim Collins

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.

When acquaintances met him on the road, Wen said he couln't stop to discuss the Communists or Nationalists, Stalin, Truman or the weather, because he was composing a six-character eight line regulated verse in his head, and any variation in his path wuld push the words out of order. It was a lie. In fact, he was empty of poetry a d afraid of words.

It is hardly surprising that I have devoted a great deal of time and energy in my professional career to encouraging parents to be present with the child right in front of them rather than being overly focused on the future.

Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust rather than a thousand needle-pricks.

Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart? O

Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Newsmen have a very short attention span. It is a prerequisite in the business. That is why the news accounts of almost anything make sense to all ages up to the age of twelve. If one wishes to enjoy newspapers, it is wise to halt all intellectual development right at that age. The schools are doing their level best to achieve this goal.

Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.

Who are you? What do you want? Who are you?" Her voice was light and fast and intense and her mouth trembled. She seemed to be on the narrow edge of emotional disaster, holding herself in check with the greatest effort. And about her was a rich and heavy scent of brandy, and an unsteadiness, the eyes too swift and not exactly in focus.

People are very good at things they are very interested in.

If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.

am talking about this insane preoccupation with throwing balls of various shapes and sizes back and forth.

When your phone chirps or vibrates, don't react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I'm making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.

the rooted person is able to meditate—give sustained attention to—the revelation of God. Not swipe, not multitask. Lingering focus.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

give attendance to the accomplishment only and let other things pass.

You don't have any time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.