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Quotes About Focus

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
~ Carl Rogers
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
~ Norman Cousins
It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
~ Charles Ives
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
~ Avital Ronell
The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.
~ Clifford Stoll
We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections
~ Daniel Goleman
Learning is the art of ignoring.
~ Elias Canetti
Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
~ Barbara Ann Kipfer
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
~ Stanley Kubrick
Details are all there are.
~ Taizan Maezumi
I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.
~ Alex Toth
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.
~ Tony Buzan
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
~ Joely Fisher
Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.
~ Luis von Ahn
Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.
~ Dave Ramsey
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
~ William Shenstone
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
~ Aldo Leopold
I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.
~ Richard G. Scott
I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
~ Agnes Denes
I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
~ Anita Sarkeesian