Quotes About Focus

Here to win. Not to make 'em mad

We cut ourselves off from our own roots, the roots of our being, and the very laws of our human nature. This one-sided focus puts us, today, in grave danger, because the violation of our own laws of nature brings about individual and social catastrophes.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Masello

You may have experienced this phenomenon in the form of test anxiety. The more important you believe the test to be, the more you have riding on the outcome, the more fear you feel. And then you find it difficult to concentrate.

I had some time ago decided that the money-makers on the grand scale are monomaniacs and fanatics and self-willed.

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.

Generally, great writers are not eclectic. Each tightly focuses his oeuvre on one idea, a single subject that ignites his passion, a subject he pursues with beautiful variation through a lifetime of work.

Art consists of separating one tiny piece from the rest of the universe and holding it up in such a way that it appears to be the most important, fascinating thing of this moment.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself.

Once you have decided to concentrate on minding your own business—focusing your efforts on acquiring assets instead of a bigger paycheck—

The path is the goal.

the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

One of the most common forms of laziness is staying busy.

If you can't make up your mind decisively, then you'll never learn to make money anyway.

Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and focus. Follow One Course Until Successful.

If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich.

I was soon bored, and my mind would drift.

If you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and focus. Follow One Course Until Successful.

you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful. If you

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it ?is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it's only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling with his few thoughts in some other place than the domain and pleasure-garden of attentiveness.

Pure is that which stands out against a background, which has a profile, which can thus become a target.