Quotes About Focus

Watches are so named as a reminder — if you don't watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you.

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Oftentimes, we become so focused on completing a specific task that we forget what is really important: to prioritize our relationship with God, first of all, and then with those we love.

The time to start your year off with a focused mindset, on your goals, has been running since the first day of the year...and if your goals aren't yet in creation then you are not focused on your goals. So Focus.

Success at anything will always come down to this; focus and effort, and we control both.

The first step to achieving your goal is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Thus, to orient means to point somebody in the right direction. In story, that somebody is the reader.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.