Quotes About Focus

Forme uma concepção clara do que busca conquistar, mas não deixe o que você busca realizar interferir com o ato de fazer com perfeição o que você tem de fazer agora. Seu conceito do que você quer é um guia para suas energias, e uma inspiração para levá-lo a aplicá-las ao máximo em seu trabalho presente. Viva pelo futuro agora.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

You direct the will upon the mind, and use it in determining what you shall believe, what you shall think, and to what you shall give your attention.

Do not sit down and try to ATTRACT the thing you want to you; but begin to move toward the thing you want, and you will find it coming to meet you. Action and reaction are equal; and the person who steadily and purposefully moves forward with one thing in view becomes a center toward which the thing he seeks is drawn with irresistible power;

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision

all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.

On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.

Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.

La causa del fracaso es hacer muchísimas cosas de una forma ineficiente y no hacer lo suficiente de una forma eficiente.

Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.

Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else -- pathway to the stars, maybe.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Absorption of Scripture is an essential counter-balance to the background noise of the world.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

Writing is a form attention and trains the writer's attention to find images and stories.

While the prophets are in a way future-tellers, they are concerned with the future as it impinges upon the present. Conversely, liberals who abdicated and turned all futuring over to conservatives have settled for a focus on the present.

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.

Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.