Top 100 Quotes About How To Focus
#1. The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?
Robert Greene
#2. Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.
Jack Canfield
#3. One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.
Walter Isaacson
#4. When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."
Darren Johnson
#5. The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
Michael Korda
#6. It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
Carlos Castaneda
#7. The men who are the most attractive and well-adjusted people I know absolutely love women, and understand how to focus on what she needs, rather than on what he can get. Basically, men need to love women more.
Matthew Hussey
#8. Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
Sam Rockwell
#10. In terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn't know how to focus, doesn't know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party.
Lindsay Lohan
#11. Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
Tamer Hassan
#12. Make your work IMPORTANT. Important enough to ignore other things. mportant enough to decide to finish it. Important enough to say 'No' to anything else - until it's done." - from "How to Focus : Stop Procrastination, Improve Your Concentration, & Get More Done!
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#13. Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.
John Powell
#14. I became very successful at a young age ... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
Claire Danes
#15. No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back.
Valerie Ormond
#16. Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
Ralph Marston
#17. Focus on your own goals and how to achieve them. No one took your spot, there's room for all of us.
Amy Schumer
#18. Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#19. Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.
Jane Ripley
#22. I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the economy going, but also he's going to focus on how we destroy ISIS.
Rick Scott
#23. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Joichi Ito
#24. Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!
Bryant McGill
#25. Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better.
Debasish Mridha
#26. To progress in life, I don't focus on how much I have done but on how much I have yet to do.
Idowu Koyenikan
#27. Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose
Thomas Narofsky
#28. It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.
Andy Murray
#29. I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel that when we are aware of our physical bodies, we become more aware of how we exist on the earth and more considerate of others with whom we share the earth.
Amanda Schull
#30. You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
Jim Cantalupo
#31. From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done ... how we have to focus on it ... the questions we have to answer about it ... and so forth.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#32. Focus on your purpose, and your stress will melt away.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
Stephen Covey
#34. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.
Heather Headley
#35. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#36. I always focus on myself in what I want, where I want to go, who I want to reach, which message I want to put out, how I want to dress.
Thalia
#37. The best parts of life aren't clear-cut or obvious - they don't have neat endings. I know it's your inclination to skip to the end, but you can't just focus on how it's all gonna turn out.
Anna Breslaw
#38. He could imagine how nice it would be to not understand. To see one's microcosm as the macrocosm. To focus a meter beyond one's own nose.
Hugh Howey
#39. Sales managers need to be good leaders. How do they do it? Good leaders effectively communicate their goals and objectives while they focus on doing their job ProActively, and let their people focus on their job. If this is true, then the inverse must be true.
William Miller
#41. I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.
Vanessa Hudgens
#42. I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.
Selma Blair
#43. Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.
Charles Duhigg
#44. What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda
#45. I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#46. The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.
Mark Edward
#47. As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.
Joyce Meyer
#48. No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.
Edgar Dale
#49. When you have love and respect, it opens the door for selflessness and a willingness to look pass what is wrong and to focus on how to create a plan, to make things right.
Tasha Hoggatt
#50. A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision.
Jordan Mitchell
#51. If you want to learn, focus 95 percent of learning from the best in your industry, craft, or discipline. If you want to teach, focus 95 percent on the people who are not the best to learn how to help the 95 percent who wants to learn.
Ben Tolosa
#52. focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.
Eric Ries
#53. Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.
Tony Levin
#54. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.
Kaoru Tada
#55. The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.
Bianca C
#56. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.
A.J. Darkholme
#57. All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
Michael Strahan
#58. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
Walter Isaacson
#59. With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.
Rachelle Lefevre
#60. One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
Lorne Michaels
#61. As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
Bernie Sanders
#62. Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don't allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
Tavis Smiley
#63. Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#64. I encourage myself - and everyone - to focus on how you feel and take care of yourself as opposed to your waistline.
Kathryn Budig
#65. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.
Katherine Ellison
#66. If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
Darin Strauss
#68. There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#69. Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#70. In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
Jed S. Rakoff
#71. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results
Melanie Pinola
#72. All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure, and who stretched beyond their ordinary abilities when they had to.
Carol S. Dweck
#73. We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.
Richard Branson
#74. How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.
Robert Jordan
#75. You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
Jonathan Tisch
#76. To live a great life, focus and do what makes you happy.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Strive to be the best you can be ... focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough' ... and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.
Robby Naish
#78. Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. That is why goal setting is so vital to time management and developing focus.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#79. Sometimes we focus on the mess or the broken dream, but in all the mess God sees greatness. He knows how to take your troubles and turn them into trophies, how to take the test and make it your testimony.
Joel Osteen
#80. Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we're going to get out of this?
Rachel Caine
#81. But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#82. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#83. The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
Dee Dee Artner
#84. Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#85. The whole point of wishing is not to focus on what you don't have it's to show you what could be. Once you know what you want then you know what to reach for what to dream about. It's how you change things.
Lisa Mangum
#86. Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#87. Sometimes, I think, when you don't know how to take another step for yourself, you have to focus on someone else, and take the step for them. Live for them. Be strong for them, even when you have so much within yourself in need of healing.
Jasinda Wilder
#88. Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.
Tim Scott
#89. In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.
Chris Cornell
#90. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
Nora Sakavic
#92. When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.
Wayne W. Dyer
#93. When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.
Rhonda Byrne
#94. When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.
Jack Davenport
#95. I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
Tom Cruise
#96. Change your focus. Refocus on the desired results Once you acknowledge how easy it is to attract factors in your life that you do not want and accept how effective and simple the law is, you can start using it to your advantage.
Malti Bhojwani
#97. Your marketing must focus on your customer's concerns, problems, anxieties, hopes, frustrations and how your product will bring more/less of each. Identify marketing channels (ways of reaching customers) most likely to convert strangers into customers.
Rob Burns
#98. How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
Bill Hybels
#99. A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.
An Na
#100. I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
M.J. Rose
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