Motivational Quotes

Focus

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

- Calloway, Wayne

Best Quotes about Focus

1.

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.

Angelis, Barbara De

2.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

Lewis, Carol

3.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Knight, Ray

4.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

5.

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.

Mitchell, W.

6.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.

7.

Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.

Saying

8.

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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

10.

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.

Jenner, Bruce

11.

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.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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.

Cecil, Richard

13.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Smiles, Sydney

14.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Calloway, Wayne

16.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

Earl Camden

19.

Think of many things, do only one.

Proverb

20.

My main focus is on my game.

Woods, Tiger

21.

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

Leschak, Peter M.

22.

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.

Connors, Jimmy

23.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Smith, Stan

24.

Often he who does too much does too little.

Proverb, Italian

25.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Capriati, Jennifer

26.

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.

Pliny The Younger

27.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

Dixon, Jack

28.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Santayana, George

29.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Allen, James

31.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

Terence

32.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.

Steffes, Kent

34.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Overstreet, Harry A.

35.

The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there.

36.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Johnson, Samuel

37.

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Williams, Tad

38.

The successful man is the average man, focused.

39.

Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.

Byron, Lord

40.

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Brown, Les

41.

Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.

42.

Presence is more than just being there.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

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.

Meyer, Paul J.

44.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Nietzsche, Friedrich