Quotes About Focus

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Studying

If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit.

Again, like the Zen approach to archery or anything else, you identify the goal and then forget about it and concentrate on the process. Measure

That's the only way you can really face life; trying to deal with too many things at once makes you overwhelmed. We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't always worry about what is to come.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

I work best without distractions. Do Not Disturb signs are made for someone like me. I'm baffled by writers who prefer to write in Starbucks.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

When you're betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you're betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you're betting for real gold, you're a nervous wreck. Your skill is the same in all three cases - but because one prize means more to you than another, you let outside considerations weigh on your mind. He who looks too hard at the outside gets clumsy on the inside.

Absorb yourself in the realities of the task at hand to the point of forgetting your own existence. Then you will have no leisure to delight in life (4:14) or abhor death. That would make this mission of yours quite doable!

Whoever focuses on externals will be clumsy inside. (p. 177)

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

How can you hit a target you don't have?

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

The great majority of people are "wandering generalities" rather than "meaningful specifics". The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.