Focus Quotes

Focus your heart-felt intuition onto things that really matter to you.

Focus your intuitive thoughts to identify what is truly worth pursuing.

It is what you pursue that gains focus in your life.

If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".

Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done

A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.

The Key to Staying Focused is to know what to Eliminate and then Doing so.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Focus on doing small things consistently rather than a big thing once a while

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You are more focus when you confront.

Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus.

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

Where your attention goes, your time goes

If you want to save your time, learn to be focused on your purpose to the utmost.

A man that is focused on his purpose always saves his time.

When building a team do not look at people’s weaknesses, instead look at their strengths.

Only by focusing on God can we reach our goal.

The leader must be focused on the goal.

Never be focused on yourself.

Ask yourself...If I walk a tight rope, will I fall, If I shake my balance of thought will it deter me and if I stay focused will I succeed?.~bns