It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.
The only prudence in life is concentration.
Presence is more than just being there.
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Think of many things, do only one.
— Proverb
Often he who does too much does too little.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.
— Saying
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
To succeed at the level I want to you have to be focused and serious.
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
— Terence
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
The first rule of focus is Wherever you are be there.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
My main focus is on my game.