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Quotes About Focus

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
~ Ayn Rand
She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.
~ Ayn Rand
Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
~ Ayn Rand
Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.
~ Ayn Rand
The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.
~ Ayn Rand
He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.
~ Ayn Rand
I always know what I want. And when you know what you want - you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.
~ Ayn Rand
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
~ Ayn Rand
At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!
~ Ayn Rand
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?
~ Ayn Rand
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
~ Ayn Rand
Francisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw was beginning to realize the difference between activity and productivity.
~ Spencer Johnson
Even In The Most Difficult Situations, When You Focus On What Is Right In The Present Moment, It Makes You Happier, Today. And It Gives You The Needed Energy And Confidence To Deal With What Is Wrong.
~ Spencer Johnson
The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!
~ Spencer Johnson
Haw empezaba a comprender la diferencia entre actividad y productividad.
~ Spencer Johnson
How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!
~ Stacy Schiff
If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!
~ Stan Lee
Prior rally peaks and the 30-week MA will be the two key factors you will focus on when setting your protective buy-stops. When you set the initial buy-stop, pay less attention to the MA and more to the prior peak.
~ Stan Weinstein
One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front of us int he here and now, and cannot envisage simultaneously a succession of processes, no matter how integrated and complementary. Our faculties of perception are consequently limited even as regards fairly simple phenomena.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
~ Stanley Kubrick
When young people ask me for advice today, I generally say, "Decide what is sacred to you, and put your best life energies at its service. Make that the focus of your studies, your work, the test for your pleasures and your relationships. Don't ever let fear or craving for security turn you aside.
~ Starhawk