Quotes About Focus

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Don't waste your time on life.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.