Quotes about Focus

If you want to stay alive, there is only one way: look fit for work.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.

What we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.