Quotes about Focus

Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

All things are ready if the mind be so.

In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. If you wish to be good, you will be good. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. Only then you must really wish these things and wish them with exclusiveness and not wish one hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.

Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death…. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past…. The future is today…. There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.