Quotes About Focus

Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - John F Kennedy

He didn't look back. He never did

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that?

settle on one direction

It is possible, of course...to want to do two different things at the same time. Then it just becomes a choice of knowing which one you want most.

Do a few simple things really well, instead of a lot of complicated maneuvers that can go wrong in the heat of battle.

I see," said Will. But Halt shook his head. "No. All too often, you don't see, because you don't maintain your concentration. You'll have to work on that." Will said nothing. He merely accepted the criticism. He'd learned by now that Halt didn't criticize without reason. And when there was reason, no amount of excuses could save him.

Before you shoot your arrow, see it fly a thousand times in your mind.

Don't waste time complaining about things that can't be changed.

There's no sense in bemoaning what we can't achieve today. Let's get on with what we can achieve.

Don't try to aim down the arrow shaft," he told her. "You have to sense where the arrow will go.

It took years of training to achieve the level of silence with which a Ranger could move.

His method of making his way through the crowd was a simple one. He deviated neither to left nor right, but forged straight ahead, using his broad shoulders to clear a path. A pace behind him, his beautiful wife, Lady Sandra, followed in the space he cleared.

But first, there's the small matter of beating the Temujai. Let's get to work.

When Halt was in a bad mood, he invariably paid careful attention to his grammar.

don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

You live your life today, Not tomorrow, and certainly not yesterday.

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.