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Quotes About Focus

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
~ Charles Dickens
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.
~ Arsene Wenger
I'm blind without my glasses.
~ Adam Ant
I go without sleep, I just go hard.
~ Tom Cruise
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
~ Nazim Hikmet
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
~ Paul J. Meyer
I can't think without my glasses.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
~ Jim Rohn
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
~ Robert Bresson
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
~ Krist Novoselic
Anyone who ever witnessed Ueli Steck flying up the Eigerwand would know that he was always in control of his actions. He was always moving with immense precision and a sense of safety.
~ Reinhold Messner
Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.
~ Frans Timmermans
All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.
~ Joe Maddon
In the late '90s, the magazine formerly known as 'The Wizard' came after me strong and hard. I was the brunt of jokes for an entire staff of angry fanboys; as much as can be poured on was poured on. But I kept focus, as anyone in that situation should.
~ Rob Liefeld
I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
~ Alan Shepard
I submerged myself in his life. Before I went to sleep at night, that's what I was watching. The videos would literally be going on while I was sleep; that's what I was hearing in my sleep. I woke up in the morning, Tupac.
~ Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
~ Campbell Brown
I'm not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I'm concentrated on playing for Wolves.
~ Matt Doherty
The very first thing I look at on a woman is her toes.
~ Tommy Lee
Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
~ Jackie Stewart
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
~ bell hooks
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.
~ Christine Lagarde
Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
~ Barry Sternlicht