Focus Quotes - Page 2

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Time, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 29, 2015

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• Channel your energy. Focus.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Running, Energy

  Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside

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• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Life, Golf

  Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Sports, Decide Upon, Choices

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• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Goodness, More Money, Spiritual Gratitude

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

  Stevie Nicks

  Kids, Artist, Alaska

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• Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

  Joyce Meyer

  Positive, Smile, Giving

  Joyce Meyer (2009). “I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

  Martina Navratilova

  Trying, Motivational Tennis, Concentrating

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• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Inspiring, Success

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

  Joy Page

  Circumstances

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

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• When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessed, Blessing, Focus And Concentration

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Inspirational, Happy Birthday, Inspiring

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