Quotes About Focus

18. The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. (Is this fair? Is this the right thing to do?) <…> not to be distracted by their darkness. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving

Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men

To run straight for the finish line, unswerving.

Work: Not to rouse pity, not to win sympathy or admiration. Only this: Activity.

No consumas la parte de la vida que te resta en hacer conjeturas sobre otras personas, de no ser que tu objetivo apunte a un bien común; porque ciertamente te privas de otra tarea; a saber, al imaginar qué hace fulano y por qué, y qué piensa y qué trama y tantas cosas semejantes que provocan tu aturdimiento, te apartas de la observación de tu guía interior.

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.

For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.

As for my mind all things which are not within the verge of her own operation, are indifferent unto her, and for her own operations, those altogether depend of her.

What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.

Be not dilatory in doing, nor confused in conversation, nor vague in thought; let not thy soul be wholly concentred in itself nor uncontrollably agitated; leave thyself leisure in thy life.

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-

Fritter not away what is left of thy life in thoughts about others, unless thou canst bring these thoughts into

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

A professional problem, O King, occupied me, and the mind, when so engaged, must not be detached from the prosecution of its enquiry.

I do what is mine to do, the rest does not disturb me.

Foolish are those who…have no aim to which they can direct every impulse and, indeed, every thought.

Why all the guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming—in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you—means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Ve?ina onoga što govorimo i što ?inimo nepotrebno je - ukloni površnost i imat ?eš više vremena i manje briga. Stoga bi svatko, u svakoj prilici, trebao sebe podsjetiti: ''Je li ovo, ili nije, nešto neophodno ?'' Uklanjanje nepotrebnoga trebalo bi primijeniti ne samo na djela nego i na misli - tada ne bi dolazilo do suvišnih djela.

This is the same feeling that many managers unwittingly create in their employees. Even when working with their most productive employees, they still spend most of their time talking about each person's few areas of nontalent and how to eradicate them. No matter how well-intended, relationships preoccupied with weakness never end well.

This advice—be clear about whom you serve—appears straightforward, but it is surprising how many leaders allow their answer to be vague, imprecise, or, most damaging of all, complex.

Selfishness seldom has to do with reaching for the biggest piece of cake on the plate; rather, it is preoccupation with our selves.