Quotes About Focus

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

If there was anything Eileen had learned from her mother, it was the calming effect of work. "When in doubt, do," was Beattie's motto.

Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

the most important thing to be successful is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

A thing half done is a game not won," said he. "If there's only one window in the house unlocked the devil may fly through it as easy as if the whole place was open.

It ain't every hand that can move as fast as the eye can jump, and faster. But patience climbs the highest hill and—

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.

All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

For there is nothing more serious than a lunatic when he comes to the central point of his lunacy.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Many of us in the PR business, however, feel the change in a very tangible way, because this industry now requires a whole other type of quality, a different way of focusing on things, a different language and way of expression, and an array of other tools, advance preparation being first and foremost. You just have to be hyperprepared for all kinds of situations.

Get yourself a goal worth working for.

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Decide What You Want—Not What You Don't Want

A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go.