Quotes About Focus

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

I don't have time to be negative.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.