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Quotes About Focus

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I appreciate my time in the gym.
~ Melanie Roach
It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.
~ Meryl Streep
Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.
~ Michael Gira
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
~ Michael J. Fox
And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.
~ Michel Gondry
When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what I love and it's what takes up all my time.
~ Michelle Branch
I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.
~ Mikal Cronin
If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.
~ Mike Lowell
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
~ Mireille Guiliano
There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
~ Mother Teresa
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
~ Napoleon Hill
I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.
~ Nathan Fillion
Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.
~ Neal Stephenson
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
~ Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
~ Mark Twain
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
~ Mark Twain
If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
~ Mark Twain
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
~ Mark Twain
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
~ Mark Twain
You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain