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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FOCUS
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement: looking neither to the right nor to the left, but straight.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
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.
Barbara De Angelis (American expert on relationship & love, author)
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
Wayne Calloway (American businessman, CEO of Pepsico)
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964, American comedian)
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964, American comedian)
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
Jennifer Capriati (1976-, American tennis player)
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.
Richard Cecil (American poet)
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
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.
Jimmy Connors (1952-, American tennis player)
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
Earl Camden (1714-1794, British chancellor)
Presence is more than just being there.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American publisher, businessman)
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),)
Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.
Cathy Freeman
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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
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.
Bruce Jenner (1949-, American track athlete, author, speaker)
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
The future must be seen in terms of what a person can do to contribute something, to make something better, to make it go where he believes with all his being it ought to go.
Frederick R. Kappel
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ray Knight
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
Carol Lewis (American athlete)
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)
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
Peter M. Leschak
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001, American author)
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. The superior person is committed to focus.
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) (c.370-300 BC, Chinese philosopher)
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.
Paul J. Meyer (American businessman, author, motivator)
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.
W. Mitchell (American businessman, mayor, speaker)
Think of many things, but do just one at a time.
Portuguese Proverb (Sayings of Portuguese origin)
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet (1875-1970, American psychologist)
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993, British historian, political scientist, formulator of Parkinson's Law)
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 (c.62-c.114, Roman writer, administrator)
The hunter who is tracking an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
The hyena chasing two gazelles at the same will go to bed hungry.
African Proverb (Sayings of African origin)
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
American Proverb (Sayings of American origin)
Often he who does too much does too little.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
The person who can see a house in China is unaware of an elephant on his nose.
Singaporean Proverb
If you chase two hares at the same time, you will catch neither of them.
Ukrainian Proverb
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.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Sydney Smiles
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
Stan Smith (1946-, American tennis player)
To succeed at the level I want to…you have to be focused and serious.
Kent Steffes (1968-, American beach volleyball player)
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
Terence (Roman writer of comedies)
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.
Author Unknown
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
Author Unknown
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
Author Unknown
The first rule of focus is ''Wherever you are be there.''
Author Unknown
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Author Unknown
Think of many things, do only one.
Author Unknown
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Tad Williams (1957-, American author)
My main focus is on my game.
Tiger Woods (1975-, American golfer)
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