Quotes About Focus

In hard times, or even presuccess times, society and at least one cartoonist want you to take care of yourself first. If you pursue your selfish objectives, and you do it well, someday your focus will turn outward.

great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick the Delusion That Works When my dog, Snickers, wants to play fetch in the backyard, she follows me around and stares into my eyes with freakish intensity, as if using her Jedi doggy powers on me.

Kanye's message was that focusing on the past creates a sort of mental prison that limits your options. In the simplest form, if a white male in America has ten ways to succeed and an African-American only has eight, it isn't productive to focus on the difference. It is more productive to pick a path to success and take it.

There's no denying the importance of practice. The hard part is figuring out what to practice.

But for what it is worth, I don't think affirmations are sensitive to exactly how many times you write them, whether you use a keyboard or a pen, whether you throw away the paper you wrote on, how many weeks you do them for, or any other detail. I can't imagine the process of affirmations—if it works at all—is sensitive to the little details. I think a deep and consistent focus on what you want is all that is required. But that's just my gut feeling.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard goes something like this: If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

Focusing on the past when the present offers sufficient paths to success is loserthink. It is better to focus on your own systems for success, and when you succeed, watch how winning fixes most problems.

You already know that when your energy is right you perform better at everything you do, including school, work, sports, and even your personal life. Energy is good. Passion is bullshit.

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be.

Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in the distant past and strive with might and main to recall and restore what is irrevocably lost.

Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Mnoga se srca gube u opštem, samo se najplemenitije posve?uje jednome.

Come raggiungere un traguardo? Senza fretta ma senza sosta.

Wer das erste Knopfloch verfehlt, kommt mit dem Zuknöpfen nicht zu Rande.