Focus Quotes

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

~ Emmanuel Ayensu

I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?

~ James Carl Nelson

I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.

~ James Carl Nelson

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.

~ Greg Pincus

It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.

~ Abhishek Ratna

i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?

~ Nikki Rowe

It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery.

~ Charles Dickens

We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.

~ Nana Awere Damoah

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

~ Kevin Deyoung

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as baits on fishhooks.

~ Paul C. Nagel

We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.

~ Jay Woodman

One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.

~ Kevin Deyoung

If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated.

~ Sheryl Campbell

Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

~ Sherry Turkle

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

~ Sherry Turkle

Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

~ Patrick Hennessey

Sometimes we feel that the busier we are, the more important we are--as though our busyness defines our worth...We can spend a lifetime whirling about at a feverish pace, checking off list after list of things that in the end really don't matter.That we do a lot may not be so important. That we focus the energy of our minds, our hearts, and our souls on those things of eternal significance--that is essential.--Joseph B. Wirthlin

~ Carolyn J. Rasmus

A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus.

~ Davyshka

The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.

~ Chris Matthews

In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful.The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable.This is invaluable for an artist.Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable.The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.Page 68

~ Steven Pressfield

Never focus on the end. Only focus on your first step.

~ Brodi Ashton

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

~ John Waire

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

~ Jane Ripley

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

~ John Maxwell

Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.

~ Joseph Epstein

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

~ Joseph Epstein

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won’t be able to miss it.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray, your purpose can put people in disarray.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The opposite of busy in today's world is sustained, focused attention. It is deep engagement in activities that really matter to us, or in conversations with those we care about.

~ Tony Crabbe

To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

The phrase having it all has little to do with having what we want.

~ Jennifer Senior

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

~ Virginia Woolf

You are more focus when you confront.

~ Sunday Adelaja

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

~ Tim Hiller

The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Where your attention goes, your time goes

~ Idowu Koyenikan

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

~ Robert Jordan