Quotes About Focus

In training, I'm always being tested. I believe that if I'm training well, I will fight well.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.

His name was Sir William Osler, and these are the words he read: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Whenever I haven't known what to do, I've just tried to do what comes next

Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord.

If a man's stomach has been filled by eating greens and other vegetables, although the most precious dainties with exquisite tastes should be given him, he cannot swallow them, he must first get rid of a few portions of the greens; so in reading, the same is true of the mixed thoughts which distract the mind, which are about the dusty affairs of a vulgar world.

At the end of them, you'll either be a damned good shot or you'll be walking with my boot wedged permanently in your butthole.

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

Many of us have experienced the difficulty in successfully 'giving up' doing something; too often, trying to give it up seems only to keep one focused on the forbidden object or enterprise — enhancing the desire rather than taming it…

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

The focus of the Christian life should be on Christ, not on self-imposed regulations. Our experience of Christ's lordship is dependent on our moment-by-moment attention to His instruction, not on our own regimented schedule.

Silence is not emptiness but an alert unfocusing focus on subtle rhythms that join our interiority to the natural world.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

When we focus on someone's light, we magnify it.

Using various combinations of the five contextual forces, forward-thinking marketers are shifting focus away from mass messages and more into what Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, calls "right-time experiences," where mobile technologies deliver customers the right information "at precisely the moment of need.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this.' That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mind-set.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.