Quotes about Focus

The book talked about how after people play a round of golf they usually don't think about all the bad shots they made but rather always remember and focus on the one great shot they had that day. The thought and feeling they get when thinking about this shot makes them want to play again and again; this is why so many people get addicted to golf.

Rule #5 Don't Waste Your Energy on Those Who Don't Get on Your Bus.

With mindless complaining, you are mindlessly focusing on problems; however, with justified complaining you identify a problem and the complaint moves you toward a solution. Every complaint represents an opportunity to turn a negative into a positive.

A man with vision has a certain look in his eye and walk in his step. He walks like he knows where he is going and why he is going there, and George didn't walk like that.

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out." only believe in yourself.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want.

it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Death tends to change people's focus and priorities—at least for a time. After the war deaths of several Bonhoeffer cousins, the younger members of the family would often lie in bed at night and talk about death and eternity. Do you spend much time thinking about eternity? Should a person concentrate on life after death, or is it better to keep one's focus solely on this life and what can be accomplished now?

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.