Nov. 22, 2024, 7:45 a.m.
In a world bustling with distractions, maintaining focus can seem like an elusive goal. Whether you're striving to reach personal objectives, excel in your career, or simply navigate through everyday tasks, staying focused is a critical skill. To inspire and guide you on this journey, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 37 quotes on staying focused. These powerful words of wisdom from renowned thinkers, leaders, and creatives offer a beacon of clarity and motivation, encouraging you to hone your concentration and achieve your ambitions. Let these insights serve as a reminder of the power of a focused mind and the endless possibilities it can unlock.
1. “...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.” - Brian Tracy
2. “Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are the Key to what has to be to COMPLETE our MISSION. "I Had Every Excuse to Fail but I Chose None" Speak Life!!!(sky)” - Sebastian K. Young
3. “When you fully focus your mind,you make others attracted to you.” - Toba Beta
4. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.” - Warren Buffett
5. “Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.” - Helen Hanson
6. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” - Zig Ziglar
7. “Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.” - Winifred Gallagher
8. “Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.” - Winifred Gallagher
9. “What you focus on grows!” - Kelli Wilson
10. “You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.” - Stephen Richards
11. “Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.” - Walter Isaacson
12. “There is nothing around me but money, money, money.” - Stephen Richards
13. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” - Stephen Richards
14. “Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.” - Stephen Richards
15. “Happy people produce. Bored people consume.” - Stephen Richards
16. “It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.” - Bonnie Jo Campbell
17. “It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.” - Herman Hesse
18. “Sometimes we focus so much on what we don't have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!” - Jeff Dixon
19. “Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.” - Brian Solis
20. “Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.” - Richard Diaz
21. “With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.” - Stephen Richards
22. “With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.” - Stephen Richards
23. “There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.” - Stephen Richards
24. “Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!” - Stephen Richards
25. “In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards
26. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards
27. “Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.” - Stephen Richards
28. “Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.” - Stephen Richards
29. “In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.” - Todd Stocker
30. “You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it.” - Stephen Richards
31. “Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.” - Stephen Richards
32. “As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.” - Brian Klemmer
33. “May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.” - Traci LaRussa
34. “I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
35. “I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS” - ASHISH RANJAN
36. “And now that they have us here, under their control, they've dropped whatever act they had on earth. We're seeing them as they really are.' He dipped his glove into the water and watched as the water turned golden. The air suddenly smelled of citrus. 'Look! It's orange juice!''Josh, focus!''You sound just like Mom or Isis or whatever her name is.” - Michael Scott
37. “Yesterday's shortcuts are today's nightmares. The race is quicker when we're stricter. Keep your eyes on today, and declare what you may.” - Mark O'Brien