Quotes about Focus

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.

The habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

One of America's most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision. When asked why he did this, he replied, "With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.