Quotes about Focus

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Do your best to rein in your desire. For if you desire something that isn't within your own control, disappointment will surely follow; meanwhile, you will be neglecting the very things that are within your control that are worthy of desire.

remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

Don't give in to second thoughts, because no one who wavers will make progress.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenagers, it seemed more exciting to go shopping at weekends. My mum told me not to worry about what my friends were doing and to stick at it.