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Friday, 21 November 2008
Daily Quote:
"There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American." (Twain, Mark - America)

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Browse Quotations about Focus

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
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.
My main focus is on my game.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Often he who does too much does too little.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Presence is more than just being there.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there.
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Think of many things, do only one.
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.
To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.
What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

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