Quotes About Focus

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear and powerful in the midst of emotional "storms." How do they accomplish this? Most of them have a fundamental rule: In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution. Most important, don't sweat the small stuff… and remember, it's all small stuff!

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

success is simple. First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide you're willing to pay the price to make it happen—and then pay that price.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability to add value and receive back.

The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.

Which do you tend to focus on more—what you have or what's missing from your life?

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?

Remember, don't drive into the past using your rear-view mirror as a guide. You want to learn from your past, not live in it—focus on the things that empower you.

I can't afford to waste my time making money. —JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ

Whatever you focus on—whatever you tune in to—you will feel more intensely. So if you don't like what you're doing, maybe it's time to change the channel.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

People who consistently succeed are those who can commit all of their resources, mental and physical, to work together toward achieving a task.

A mind out of control will play tricks on you. Directed, it's your greatest friend.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." —THE BUDDHA

great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova once said, "To follow, without halt, one aim: there's the secret of success.

When we create an environment inside our minds that has too many intense and simultaneous demands upon us, of course we'll feel overloaded. But we also have the power to change this by focusing on what we can control and dealing with it a step at a time.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. —HENRY KISSINGER

Remember, clarity is power. When your brain knows a real number, your conscious mind will figure out a way to get there.

inhale one count, hold four counts, exhale two counts. If you inhaled for four seconds, you would hold for sixteen and exhale for eight.

Expense Ratio. This expense is the main "price tag"—the number they want us focused on.