Focusing On Future Quotes

#1. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

#2. Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.

Vijay Dhameliya

#3. Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Richard Mentor Johnson

#4. When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

Al Gore

#5. By studying our history and focusing on the motives of the elite, we can draw an image of what our future might look like, and if we stay on the current path that we are on, the future looks very grim.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#6. I have crushes on women all the time.

Adam Lambert

#7. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald J. Trump

#8. God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

Priscilla Shirer

#9. However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing could be like cleaning carpets or working in a factory: just a meaningless production of words.

Alice Driver

#10. The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.

Joseph Stiglitz

#11. Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.

Michelle Rodriguez

#12. Waiting (a tough thing to do), focusing on other things, and trusting the Lord will take care of future hopes is much safer than looking at a new person to take the pain away.

Lois Mowday Rabey

#13. Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

Carlos Wallace

#14. When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future.

Gretchen Rubin

#15. I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time - something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

Lisa Wingate

#16. We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.

Dinty W. Moore

#17. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield

#18. We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.

Junot Diaz

#19. Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#20. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Joss Whedon

#22. Are you worrying about tomorrow when you should be focusing on today? Trust God to equip you for whatever comes today, tomorrow, and in the future, so that you can receive the fullness of His gifts today.

Joyce Meyer

#23. I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry.

Lewis Carroll

#24. Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future.

Charles F. Glassman