Quotes About Focus

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

True success requires sacrifice.

He who chases the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.

passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

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She did this in order to distract her mind, that she might forget; and she only filled her head thus in order to alleviate the weight on her heart.

He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow

The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character

Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.

No man can think, feel, will, nor even dream, without everything being defined, conditioned, limited, directed by a goal which floats before him.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

It's amazing what you can block out when you really try. Although some things stay with you no matter what they affect everything that you do.

Like the youthful Nietzsche, he was assailed by all kinds of illnesses, and he was virtually unable to concentrate.

But I hope you will -- use your brains. Use your brains. Don't be distracted. Once you make that mistake, of being -- distracted, over a man, your life will never be your own. You will get the burden, a woman always does.

They had something close in front of them, a picture in front of their eyes that came between them and the world, which was the thing most adults seemed to have.

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