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Quotes about Focus

It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.
- Charles Dickens
She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.
- Charles Dickens
Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…
- William James
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.
- Norman Vincent Peale
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
- Stephen Covey
What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.
- Gregory Dickow
What we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.
- Gregory Dickow
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
- Grover Norquist
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
- Gordon Hinckley