Focus Quotes

You become what you focus on and dream about.

~ Debasish Mridha

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.

~ Anthony Liccione

If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.

~ Mishi Mccoy

In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

~ Suzy Kassem

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

~ Bonnie Jo Campbell

If you want to change something, whether in a relationship, work, or anywhere, identify and focus on the few most important bits, and don't throw in extras to mess it up.

~ Jay Woodman

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn’t respect in him and eventually that’s all she saw.

~ Kate Mcgahan

The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.

~ Seal The Smile

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

~ Nikki Rowe

You can’t lead people if you aren’t going to focus on what’s relevant to you and them. Don’t worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn’t want to be here at this dance, with people he didn’t want to talk to and messages he didn’t particularly wish to deliver. He didn’t want to dance with young ladies he didn’t know, and he didn’t want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. He forgot about Tallywhite. He forgot about pease, porridge, and pudding, and he stalked across the room with such single-minded purpose that the crowds seemed to melt from his path. And somehow, amazingly, the rest of the world had not yet noticed her. She was so beautiful, so uncommonly alive and real in this room full of waxen dolls. She would not go undiscovered for long. But not yet. Soon he would have to fight the throngs of eager young gentlemen, but for now, she was still his alone.

~ Julia Quinn

We can see the beauty of life, with positive focus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If I can somehow focus on the pain of not focusing on my pain, I will soon find that pain healed simply because I forced myself to do the exact opposite of what my core humanity demanded I do…I sought to heal the pain of someone else instead.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Know your enemy, but don't give him all your energy.

~ Jeanette Coron

Keep making a difference out there! Don't let the noise around you distract you from listening to the voice within you.

~ Farshad Asl

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it, they will focus and do what they can.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders know how to set priorities. They focus on the task that requires the most rapid attention.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Success requires a focused attention of your time and energy. This is true no matter what you want to achieve – to change the world or simply change apartments. All success stories come down to one person having a focused aim – so focused at times it can look like an obsession.

~ Nigel Cumberland

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

~ Ashish Patel

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

~ Ashish Patel

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

~ George F. Will

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

~ Jane Ripley

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

~ Susan Vreeland

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.

~ Kelly E. Lindner

It fascinates me that when we lose one of our five senses, the remaining four strengthen and rally to make sense of the world we live in. Even by closing our eyes for a moment, we find ourselves paying closer attention to the sounds around us. Perhaps this is why music can resonate so deeply within us; somehow our isolated senses allow our brains the space and perspective to connect these really beautiful dots of our own hearts and souls. I wonder if the act of giving our other senses a break ca

~ Ryan O'neal

How ironic it is then, to realize how many of we humans are masochists! That even when we are placed in paradise, the majority of us would, by choice, focus on everything outside the present moment and make ourselves suffer by thinking about Dis-Ease! Too many of us would dwell on a past that no longer exists while everything in the present moment is wonderful. What great paradoxes we as humans are capable of!

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you're being bombarded with information, the act of looking for patterns – not necessarily finding them – is what going to give you psychic refuge, a sense of sanctuary.

~ Douglas Copeland

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

~ Winifred Gallagher

My favorite lecturer was Alan Bean, who flew on Apollo 12 and is one of the twelve guys who walked on the moon. After retiring from NASA, he became a painter. Alan's lecture was called The Art of Space Exploration. He talked about the mistakes he'd made and how he learned to fix them. One lesson that took him a while to learn was that at a place like NASA you can only have an effect on certain things. You can't control who likes you. You can't control who gets assigned to flights or what NASA's budget is going to be next year. If you get caught up worrying about things you can't control, you'll drive yourself nuts. It's better to focus on the things right in front of you. Identify the places where you can have a positive impact. Concentrate there and let the rest take care of itself. The last thing Alan said to us was 'What most people want in life is to do something great. That doesn't happen often. Don't take it for granted. Don't be blasé about it. And don't blow it. A lot of times, believe it or not, people blow it.

~ Mike Massimino