Quotes about Focus

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.

You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment