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Quotes About Focus

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
~ Cardinal Richelieu
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
~ Guy Finley
I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.
~ Dirk Nowitzki
You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.
~ Simon Le Bon
Never give up. Look forward to the future, and don't give a damn about haters
~ Unknown
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.
~ Daniel Levitin
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
~ William Osler
The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
~ Lou Gramm
We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.
~ T. Mills
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
~ Bill Murray
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
~ Mark Twain
Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.
~ Pat Paulsen
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
~ Tara Brach
Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
~ Richard Russo
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
~ William DeWitt Hyde
This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
~ Tim Ferriss
We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present.
~ Cartier Martin
We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.
~ Dwyane Wade
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you came from?
~ Unknown
The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
~ Ziggy Marley
I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.
~ Vernon Davis