Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. — Ray Knight
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. — Tom Kite
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. — Brian Tracy
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs
A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius. — Alex Hormozi
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
Short Focus And Concentration Quotes
FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful — Robert Kiyosaki
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. — John Carmack
Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time. — Dave Ramsey
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. — Deepak Chopra
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. — Bill Russell
The secret of success is focus of purpose. — Thomas A. Edison
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. — Arnold Palmer
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show. — T. Harv Eker
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S
Focus And Concentration Image Quotes
Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.
What Is Focus And Concentration Quotes
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. — Paulo Coelho
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. — Nick Cave
Focus on your goals, not your fear.
For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I don't have to sit there and concentrate. Because, if I start to really focus, my conscious mind begins to apply data, which is not accurate. — Caroline Myss
Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too. — Gabby Douglas
If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else. — Grant Bowler
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But, that's good too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that. — Stephen Lang
What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it's always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely. — Ben Howard
If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet. — Frederick Lenz
I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is. — Wladimir Klitschko
How To Focus Quotes
People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are. — Gurbaksh Chahal
A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on. — Xi Jinping
Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish. — Herman Edwards
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.
You cannot be CEO of more than one thing. No matter how much you want to or how good the opportunity is. — Alex Hormozi
Setting goals is important. They bring us focus and order to how you prioritize your resources, allocate your time, and exert your energy. They structure your day and bring intentionality to your actions and decision-making. Plus they're exciting. — Rich Roll
When we’re confident, we’re focused on the present rather than worried about the future, and that makes it much easier to see how to turn obstacles into opportunities, weaknesses into advantages, and setbacks into breakthroughs. — Dan Sullivan
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one. — Pedro Noguera
We just kept putting off the worry as we focused on the next problem and how to solve it. — Fred Haise
Enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go. — Mandy Hale
Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane. — Rick Rubin
Focus Concentrate Quotes
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. — Tony Robbins
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus
Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things and harder to be distracted by the wrong things. — Tim Grover
If you only focus on your problems, that's all you'll ever see.
Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think. — Sam Altman
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. — Tony Robbins
As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it. — Wim Hof
Can't Concentrate Quotes
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. — Louis D. Brandeis
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives. — Ralph Levy
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and Effort. And we control both.
My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat. — Tracey Gold
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. — Edwin Moses
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top. — Royal Robbins
Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are. — Chip Kidd
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now. — Paulo Coelho
My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity. — Joe Torre
Mind Concentration Quotes
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. — Nikola Tesla
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul — Harold S. Kushner
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson
Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else? — John D. Rockefeller
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda
Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life. — Brian Tracy
Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? — Frank Laubach
Focused Attention Quotes
We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth! — John F. MacArthur
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results. — Andrew Wommack
The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking. — Nancy Kline
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Multi-tasking is like balancing spinning plates. Sure, it sounds exciting but you’ll never unlock the compounding effects of narrowly focused attention. — Alex Hormozi
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
If there's too much plot happening in animation and people are too focused on what's around the corner, they start feeling like their brain is being ripped in half. You don't know what to pay attention to. — Duncan Trussell
Generally, most people will make the mistake of paying too much attention to the competition. — Naval Ravikant
Focus In Life Quotes
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier. — Rick Ross
Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life. — Andy Biersack
In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do. — Rickson Gracie
Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize. — Macklemore
There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing. — Alexander McQueen
Most people dramatically underestimate what can happen in a year. Your entire life can change with one year of focused daily effort. — Sahil Bloom
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. — Marianne Williamson
If everything in your life feels urgent, it means nothing is. Not everything in life can be a ‘priority’. Master the skill of identifying what really matters & what is truly essential. Start putting your focus and energy there and watch your life start to change. — Rangan Chatterjee
The first 4-6 hours of my day are dedicated to moving the needle in the important aspects of my life. — Alex Hormozi
Focus In Business Quotes
Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. — Les Brown
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
I create a lot of my content in one or two days for the next month because I can get really creatively inspired and then I can spend the rest of the couple of months thinking about other creative ideas but focusing on business, logistics, being effective, practical, and productive. — Jay Shetty
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. — Andrew Carnegie
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. — Rod Blagojevich
Business today is more personal than ever. It's about pouring your soul into whatever you create. It's about providing more value than anyone else in the market and focusing on creating strong, honest, and deep connections with your customers. — Marie Forleo
You've got to block out all distractions when you train. Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business. — Mike Matarazzo
A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join. — Meg Whitman
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things. — Bill Gates
A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts. — Lauryn Hill
Focus And Determination Quotes
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard
My mother always says, "The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak." I can be very focused and determined. But, I can also be very stubborn. Be flexible be nuanced. — Sarah Lafleur
You're standing in a room with a thousand doors, your job is to choose one and ignore the 999 other doors, and walk through that. — Tom Bilyeu
I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now. — Tim Tebow
You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals. — Henry Sy
Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it. — Gabriel Iglesias
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback. — Malcolm Gladwell
Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting. — Paul J. Meyer
A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action. — Alfie Kohn
What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions. — Tony Robbins
Work Concentration Quotes
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
We now see that young students have more and more trouble concentrating or working long hours. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. — Roger Bannister
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law. — Dale Spender
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. — Jim Rohn
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends. — Stephen Spender
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. — Isadora Duncan
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work. — Jim Rohn
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning. — Ricardo Semler
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. — Oswald Chambers
We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world. — Bonnie L. Oscarson
If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble. — Stuart Wilde
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter Drucker
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. — Alan Loy McGinnis
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency. — Anne Graham Lotz
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan. — Stanley Greenspan
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. — Tony Robbins
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets. — Nido R Qubein
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world — Og Mandino
I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration. — Usain Bolt
However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once. — Bruce McCulloch
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. — Arnold Palmer
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing. — Shunryu Suzuki
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath. — A. G. Mohan
To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that. — Isabelle Huppert
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use). — Paulo Coelho
The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. — Denis Waitley
On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery. — Franklyn Ajaye
Professional bodybuilding is a sport of total dedication. You must dedicate every aspect of every day to the attainment of your goals if you want to succeed. It is not enough to merely go to the gym to "work out." You must put all of your concentration and focus on each rep, on each set, on each exercise to have a successful workout. — Nasser El Sonbaty
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. — Michael Leboeuf
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left. — William Mathews
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind. — Thomas Carlyle
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. — Harrison Ford
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. — Betty Buckley
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. — Mickey Rourke
In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return. — Colin Powell
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame. — Susan Cain
My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done. — Brian Tracy
Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.' — Rick Barry
Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time. — Dustin Diamond
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