Quotes about Focus

Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.

A person without discipline is in a prison without bars.

People with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems. Just about anybody can see problems.

Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.

Final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.

One of the best applications of this idea is expressed in what I call the 101 percent principle: Find the one thing that you believe is the potential leader's greatest asset, and then give 101 percent encouragement in that area. Focusing on a person's strengths promotes positive growth, confidence, and success as a potential leader.

If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.

If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.

The bottom line is that when you long for the gifts, favor, position, or opportunities of someone else, it distracts you from the gifts, favor, position, and opportunities that God has given YOU.

Focus and follow through.

George Matthew Adams asserts, In this life, we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something you want—even though you miss it—than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If