Quotes About Focus

Focus away from ideas that get you nowhere and toward ideas that can change your life.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."18

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

the main purpose of speech is to direct listeners' attention to a selected sector of reality. Once that is accomplished, the listeners' existing associations to the now-spotlighted sector will take over to determine the reaction. For

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time.

Cuando tienes miedo no puedes pensar con claridad

You use your cuts to get people to swing attention to the parts of your message you really want them to focus on.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it."2

You spread yourself out too thin, my son. A man who can do everything can do nothing. We specialize in our country. I hire men who can do only one thing, and do that thing better than anybody else.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

A watched child never learns.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.