Focus Quotes

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use email and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the emails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.