Focused Effort Quotes

#1. Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

Edward De Bono

#2. Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.

Steven Redhead

#3. Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#4. Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Greg Carlson

#5. The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Paul J. Meyer

#7. We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream.

Neelesh V. Sakhardande

#9. Cinder made a special trip to Paris for this girl?"
"My logic aptitude suggests this is a possibility."
"What else do we know about this ... Scarlet?

Marissa Meyer

#10. The naked statement - a black man has been killed by a white policeman - is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

Calvin Trillin

#11. Competitiveness must be focused exclusively on the process of what you are doing rather than the result of that effort (the so-called winning or losing).

John Wooden

#12. You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.

Karen Joy Fowler

#13. We definitely have a Wii U. It gets pulled out whenever there's a new great game coming out.

Ron Funches

#14. The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.

Marc Benioff

#15. A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

Sujit Lalwani

#16. Whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

Sergey Brin

#17. What do you mean 'lower myself'? That's the only thing I've ever been. Just a simple human who couldn't save a little girl. Not even with alchemy.

Hiromu Arakawa

#18. A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.

Mitt Romney

#19. I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

M. Stanton Evans

#20. Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

Narendra Modi

#21. If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless

Sunday Adelaja

#22. I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

Samuel Rutherford

#23. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.

Anne Burack Sayre

#25. All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.

Carly Fiorina

#26. The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

Michael Scheuer

#27. It's faith that got me here. So it's faith that will get me through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#28. It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

Gigi Hadid

#29. Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Max Lucado

#30. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

Burt Rutan

#31. Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Brian Herbert

#33. My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Peter Diamandis

#34. Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

Mike Huckabee

#35. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).

Max Lucado

#36. Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

Richard Branson

#37. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston