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Quotes About Focus

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
~ John Keats
I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses.
~ John Keats
I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it—let it have its course bad or good ...
~ John Keats
Why talk about something you can't do anything about?
~ John Knowles
Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
~ John Lennon
And you know what genius is, Mose? It's endless attention to detail.
~ John Lescroart
Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
Sun Tzu deja suficientes vías libres para contentar al zorro y mantiene, a la vez, el propósito y la determinación del erizo.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
The study of epidemic disease is, of course, a prime focus of public health.
~ John M. Barry
The revolution of modern science and especially medical science began as science not only focused on this answer to "What can I know?" but more important, changed its method of inquiry, changed its answer to "How can I know it?
~ John M. Barry
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
~ John Maxwell
Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/
~ John Maxwell
Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.
~ John Maxwell
You find your lead, you build your structure, you are now free to write.
~ John McPhee
The lead—like the title—should be a flashlight that shines down into the story. A lead is a promise. It promises that the piece of writing is going to be like this. If it is not going to be so, don't use the lead.
~ John McPhee
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
~ Bill Richardson
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
~ Wendell Berry
Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
~ Kapil Dev
So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.
~ Julie Payette
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
~ Daniel Goleman
Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".
~ Ayn Rand
If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.
~ Kirk Gibson
Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
~ Jose Mourinho