Quotes about Focus
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
— Norman Vincent Peale
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
— Og Mandino
The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.
— Robin Sharma
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
— Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
— Steven Pressfield
What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance
— Zig Ziglar
Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.
— Jack Canfield
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
— John Updike
I don't know about other people, but I love to work.
— Kevin Hart
We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.
— Marina Abramovic