Focus Quotes

Yesterday's shortcuts are today's nightmares. The race is quicker when we're stricter. Keep your eyes on today, and declare what you may.

~ Mark Donnelly

Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.

~ Lorii Myers

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

~ Lorii Myers

And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it without the least alteration? He sticks to this traditional custom because he knows from experience that the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating. The meditative repose in which he performs them gives him that vital loosening and equability of all his powers, that collectedness and presence of mind, without which no right work can be done.

~ Eugen Herrigel

Don't focus on the mountain; focus on the mountain mover! HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably.

~ Helen Shucman

When dreams are not clear, the results are often as blurred. You won't be able to arrive at your desired destination if you are not certain of where you're going. You have to be able to see clearly and perfectly.

~ Jan Mckingley Hilado

Focus is the soul of success.

~ Sandeep Kakkar

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

~ Caitlin Moran

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.

~ Todd Stocker

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

~ Don Chadwick

Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him.

~ J.i. Packer

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

~ Nathan W. Morris

We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

~ Brian Klemmer

Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.

~ Steven Redhead

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

~ Alan Cohen

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or some other icon of unchurchness. The problem is that they have been only about themselves from the moment they could wail for their mothers, and the decision to give them at church what they can find in any self-help book appears now as a choice to abandon the One in whose honor the church gathers. What they need is to be set free from themselves with finality and to be lost in the awesome wonder of the manifest presence of God. It was never God’s desire that He would sit on the sideline and watch us frantically devise impressive ways to reach people or simply hold the line on orthodoxy as though faithfulness can exist in a vacuum apart from fruitfulness. God is the Matter of first importance! Can you say that about your current weekly encounter with church?

~ James Macdonald

Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students asked. “Doctors,” Sophia said, “need strong stomachs and strong powers of observation.” Then she opened a canister. The putrid smell quickly moved through the classroom. Sophia stuck a finger in the jar, pulled it up, and then licked it. She passed the jar around encouraging each doctor in training to do the same. Each did, and though many felt nauseas, no one got sick. “You all have very strong stomachs,” she said. “But your powers of observation need some work.” “What do you mean?” they asked. “We did just what you did.” “There is one difference,” she replied. “The finger I dipped in the jar was not the finger I licked.

~ David W. Jones

Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

~ Steven Redhead

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

~ Orrin Woodward

Stop blaming and start aiming.

~ Rob Liano

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

~ Rod Blagojevich

I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons.

~ Anwar Hadid

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

~ Bill Gates

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

~ Jay Samit

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

~ Bobby Flay

The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.

~ Michelle Phan

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

~ Michael Bergdahl

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

~ Nicki Minaj

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

~ Kirsten Sweetland

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

~ Brandon Jenner

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

~ Jessica Savitch

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

~ Imelda Staunton

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

~ Tristan Macmanus

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

~ Dalai Lama

There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

~ Marvin Hagler

When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

~ Dr. Dre

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

~ Elizabeth Warren

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

~ Jon Scieszka