Quotes About Focusing On The Past

#1. I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

Angelina Jolie

#2. 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

#3. Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education.

Malala Yousafzai

#4. Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

Nate Holland

#5. 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

#6. Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like ... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

Rick Riordan

#8. Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

Tony Robbins

#9. If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.

Cory Monteith

#10. The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple

John Brown

#11. By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

Denis Waitley

#12. By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Natan Sharansky

#13. In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Susan Rice

#14. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#15. Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.

Genevieve Gerard

#16. I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

Sachin Tendulkar

#17. Forget the past... "I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." - Philippians 3:13b

Lisa Cheater

#18. My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

Jerry Only

#19. Robert Louis Stevenson ... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

#20. This focusing outward ... painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

M.L. Stedman

#21. Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

Ray Ozzie

#22. 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

#23. It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

Martha Plimpton

#24. Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.

Charles R. Swindoll

#25. If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Roy Bennett

#26. Mindfulness is focusing on the present with intent, being in the present instead of allowing ourselves to be run on automatic pilot by our past-based default programming. Being

Steven Jay Fogel

#27. 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

#28. I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.

Lisa J. Shultz

#29. You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

David Cottrell

#30. To overcome your troubles ... you must look past all your clouds of despair by focusing on the sunshine of hope shinning behind them.

Timothy Pina

#31. He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

Tracy Kidder

#32. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

#33. What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Jodi Picoult

#34. Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.

Sean Berdy

#35. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

Lauren Oliver

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

Charles F. Glassman

#37. I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.

Weyes Blood

#38. My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Sufjan Stevens

#39. In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#40. Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair.

Pamela H. Hansen

#41. It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

Norman Jewison

#42. The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.

Noam Chomsky

#43. While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Bo Bennett

#44. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Dale Ludwig

#45. Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

Jane Ripley

#46. Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.

Lois P Frankel

#47. We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

David Jeremiah

#48. And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

Stephen Cambone

#49. We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Ellen Pompeo

#50. Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

Russell M. Nelson

#51. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Gary Hopkins

#52. By focusing hard on obtaining that human capital you will vastly increase your chances of becoming rich. Stupid

Felix Dennis

#53. Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Seth Berkley

#54. The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

Guy Kawasaki

#55. I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

Howard Schultz

#56. The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

Alan Cohen

#57. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

#58. I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.

Alberto Gonzales

#59. Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.

Debasish Mridha

#60. Stop focusing on what others keep doing wrong; Be positive. Be a light & influence for others. Make a difference in our world.

Timothy Pina