Inward Focus Quotes

#1. A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

David Mamet

#3. I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague ... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

Barry Hannah

#4. Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...

Angelina Grimke

#5. Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Big Sean

#6. To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves - and each other.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#7. Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

Margaret Of Valois

#8. Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

George Lucas

#9. Maybe sometimes you have to topple a secret empire that's been around for centuries in order to save one that's been around forever.

Gina Damico

#10. You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.

Roshan Sharma

#11. The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Jude Morgan

#12. When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

David Brooks

#13. The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

Peter Drucker

#14. Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens this great relationship with the pastor and creates competition between parishioners for the pastor's time.

Jim Griffith

#15. Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.

Robert M. Pirsig

#16. When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

Brian Tracy

#17. Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#18. Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Tim Ferriss

#19. The only way to experience true wellbeing is to turn inward. This is what yoga means - not up, not out, but in. The only way out is in.

Sadghuru