Focus Quotes

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.

It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Gentlemen, this is the football.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Learn to cultivate your own garden.

Where focus goes, energy flows.

If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Oh, one world at a time!

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.

It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.