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Focus Quotes


"If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time."


"For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time."


"You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it."


"The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it."


"The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment."


"When there is no specific task, the human's subconscious mind will be in a passive state."


"Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent."


"Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities."


"Invest your life into what you were born to do."


"One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static."


"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."


"Stay focused, leave everything and do something."


"To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal."


"Serious people are not easily distracted!"


"Focus is not a state of single-mindedly pursuing one goal or objective without getting distracted. Rather, it's a commitment to exert all concentration and effort through constant adjustment like the lens of the human eye on a vision or purpose."



"If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work."


"Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing."


"Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education."


"To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal."


"If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing."


"Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another."


"When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything."


"A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul."


"Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth."


"I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused."


"Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus."


"You can't excel in everything but you can be exceptional in a few things, so why not choose your life's focus?"


"All battles are not created equal; a few offer good rewards and are worthy of your attention but most are a waste of your time, energy and focus."


"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."


"Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity."


"One common thing about great achievers is that, they keep asking useful questions every day. They ask questions like; "What do I want and what do I need to do to get it?"



"Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi)."
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