Quotes about Focus

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.

The habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

One of America's most successful and best known financiers followed the habit of closing his eyes for two or three minutes before making a decision. When asked why he did this, he replied, "With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

An unsettled mind is helpless. Indecision makes an unsettled mind.

You will become what you want to be because of the dominating thoughts that you permit to occupy your mind.

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

Note the Strong Man. He sees a thing to do and immediately DOES it. The thing may look trivial. It may even seem the work of some other fellow. But without hesitancy, as though dispute was greater than the task, the Strong Man gets the thing Done — so that he may have Time for other and Bigger things.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

All men have become what they are, because of their dominating thoughts and desires.