c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers and thuggish music. Of our neighbors, who were buying gold and ammunition and great quantities of freeze-dried food, and who were organizing themselves into angry tribes recognizable to one another by bumper stickers.
— Jean Thompson, The Humanity Project
Some stories aren’t black and white…
— C.J. Roberts
Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel
— Carl Henegan
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.
— Andrew Shaffer
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.
— Andrew Shaffer, Fifty-one Shades: A Parody
The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild
If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.
— Péter Zilahy, The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives
«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.»
— Bruce Sterling, Love is Strange
The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.
— Péter Zilahy, The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives
The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common soldier today, and you are as good as kings. Each man here is part of me. So what’s left for the king to say? Only two words, but they are the two that your hearts want to hear. Victory.And home!” Then his command cracked like a whip. “All together—move!
— Deepak Chopra, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
finding in motion, what was once in place
— Brian Heffron, Sustain Me with Your Breath
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
— Tom Clancy
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.
— Atul Purohit, Love Vs Destiny. . .the strange game of life!
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
— Atul Purohit
Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?
— Barbara Kingsolver
The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.
— P.C. Cast, Brighid's Quest
If you love somebody then tell them how you feel dont be scared of their reaction or rejection life is too short. you should take a chance and if things dont work out as you plan dont worry cuz life moves on and true love will be waiting for you again.
— Atul Purohit, Love Vs Destiny. . .the strange game of life!
Love is a way of living so how can our souls be healthy enough to live without love. I will continue to love you for as long as I have life because you've showed me the light. I always look forward to waking up in the morning because you're there waiting to love me again with your arms open wide waiting to embrace me with your love. The love I will strive to keep hold on forever. I love you!!
— Atul Purohit
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living in me and now I enjoy ever bit of my life and hope best for rest...something beyond lovelines from Love Vs Destiny...
— Atul Purohit
I just came this morning and haven't been debriefed yet about the status of our latest prisoners. As a matter of fact, I'd barely stepped inside,
— Elle Aycart, More than Meets the Ink
He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with such care, he had felt she was trapping something behind the colour.She had touched life, played with it a little, bit it was a slippery bugger,and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind.
— Rachel Joyce
And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.
— Autumn Sanders
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
— Colin Meloy
God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.
— Kevin Alan Milne
Looking at the stars is a glimpse of history. Some of the things we see are millions of light-years away. Everything in the universe has a past but stars don't try to hide it. They just keep shinning, for everyone to see.
— Kevin Alan Milne
Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.Murder in the Dog Park
— Jill Yesko
Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade
— Kerry Reichs
The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.
— Tom Vater
God Hates divorce.""He hates cruelty even more."Caring For Eleanor
— Sonia Rumzi
Man will never be stronger nor independent ifhe lives under perpetual motivation of others.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I've been through hell in this life, yet risen up and survived.I felt pity after heard that boy's preaching about motivation.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Laugh at yourself and your heart will lift up with joy!
— Auliq-Ice
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
— Mike Ditka
If you doubt a man's ability, you limit their potential.
— Brandon J.errick Doctor
You are just like any another person until you try something different!
— Samura
The road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is gonna get hard and you're gonna wanna quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be.
— Will Smith
The ultimate resources are EMOTIONAL STATES:Creativity, decisiveness, passion, honesty, sincerity, lovethese are the ultimate human resources and when you engage these resources you can get any other resource on earth.
— Tony Robbins
Running strengthens self-motivation.
— Tumpal Sihombing
I think it’s all a facade. I think you wear a mask to show us, the media and the public, how you want to be perceived, but behind closed doors and deep down inside lies the real Shin Shaojin. A man who is so egotistical, maniacal, and so power driven that he would sell his soul to the highest bidder if it meant getting to the top.
— Justin Bienvenue, Opium Warfare
I think no matter who you are, no matter what you do in your life, no matter where you come from, you have to fight; we all fight in different ways. And its a metaphor, sometimes its literal, and I really believe that freedom is on the other side of discipline. Your mind can only match where your body is. And so its...you're never mastering it, there's always a lesson--things catch you in unexpected ways. And I think that's a beautiful metaphor for life.
— Jake Gyllenhaal
If you wanna take the fucking island burn your fucking boats; and you will take the island 'cause people when they're gonna either die or succeed, tend to succeed.
— Tony Robbins
You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.
— Auliq-Ice
When I started this business I had nothing, I was at the bottom. What I really had was my self confidence that got me here today. The thing about this self confidence is that it can't be bought. You either have it or you have to build it on your own.
— Batya Maman Sabag
Stubbornness leads to strong will.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You struggle alone. But rejoice in success with many.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life ahead holds much more opportunities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you eagerly search, you will find what you seek.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not forget to write your sacred book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have a great potential.Explore your special skills.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life
— Anubhav Mishra
Even, if we aren’t rewarded, we will do the good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I’d walked, the pain I’d felt, the beauty I’d drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I’d taken, would all add up to nothing. They’d be stolen. They’d vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.
— Erri De Luca, Tre cavalli
Love me, desire me and pray for me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
No One Can Hurt Me, Until I Want To Feel That Hurt.
— Yaganesh Derasari
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
— Golda Meir
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
— George Watsky
I'm acting like someone who is starting to realize who he is and what he can do.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.
— Christian Baloga
If it isn't broken don't try to fix it
— Jenetta Haim
Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.
— Rafi Zabor
I am on pilgrim to self-realisation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Measure your success by the ladder you set for yourself and not on what somebody achieved or done!
— Unarine Ramaru
Be original and don’t be afraid to stand out. Never downplay your capabilities. Everybody won’t believe in you and everybody won’t rejoice with you, and that’s quite alright. Self-motivation, self-love, and self-determination will guide you through. ALWAYS believe in yourself because that’s what truly matters most.
— Stephanie Lahart
I do not want peoples to miss me, They just remember me; is more than enough.
— Shashank Rayal
It's Better to Have Something Than Nothing..
— Keyur Bhatt
I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what... Always shine.
— Anonymous
i'd never try to be like him/her.I'monly try to be like ME.
— Arunesh mani
make your worst day is the best day in your life,because surely there's something missing within our self without it,so we can be who we are now ,the wiser and the mature one
— Faiz Triumph
A leader in the leader is your positional status in the body while the leader in a leader is Christ in you the hope of glory
— Ikechukwu Joseph
You can only live 'Life' when you stepped out from your comfort zone. Don't restrict yourself within a shell when you can actually be limitless.
— Jeekeshen Chinnappen, Psychic Gang
If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.
— Palle Oswald
Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment....
— Jacqueline Ripstein
My name is Lake Suck and this is my manifesto. I swear to be myself. To think for myself. I will not be led by social conventions. I will make my own way through the world. I will live on my own terms without conforming to society's expectations of who they think I should be, I will be the visible minority.By being myself, I will help to save the world. I swear to always look, listen, learn, think, ask, act, and speak for myself.
— Cecil Castellucci, Beige
Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.
— Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
Focusing is about saying No.
— Steve Jobs
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
— Colin Powell
You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
When you fully focus your mind,you make others attracted to you.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
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, Steve Jobs
Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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
What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
...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, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
— Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful - you'll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you're most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive - to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume.
— Leo Babauta, Thriving on Less: Simplifying in a Tough Economy
Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel while doing it. Then, try to do more of what's rewarding, even if it takes an effort, and less of what isn't. Where optimal experience is concerned, he says, "'I just don't have the time' often means 'I just don't have the self-discipline.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of 
— P.G. Wodehouse
Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something - a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug- he would resolutely ignore it. That focus allowed him to say no. He got Apple back on track by cutting all except a few core products. He made devices simpler by eliminating buttons, software simpler by eliminating features, and interfaces simpler by eliminating options. He attributed his ability to focus and his love of simplicity to his Zen training. It honed his appreciation for intuition, showed him how to filter out anything that was distracting or unnecessary, and nurtured in him an aesthetic based on minimalism.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
...on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Obsidian Butterfly
One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are "reactant" personalities, who focus on what they often wrongly perceive as others' attempts to control them. In one experiment, some of these touchy individuals were asked to think of two people they knew: a bossy sort who advocated hard work and a mellow type who preached la dolce vita. Then, one of the names was flashed before the subjects too briefly to register in their conscious awareness. Next, the subjects were given a task to perform. Those who had been exposed to the hard-driving name performed markedly worse than those exposed to the easygoing name. Even this weak, subliminal attention to an emotional cue that suggested control was enough to get their reactant backs up and cause them to act to their own disadvantage. All relationships involve give-and-take and cooperation, so a person who habitually attends to ordinary requests or suggestions like a bull to a red flag is in for big trouble in both home and workplace.
— Winifred Gallagher
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
I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.
— Veronica Wolff, Isle of Night
I wanna be the best in at least one thing in this life.
— Toba Beta
When you try to persistently abolish hatred,at that very moment...you lose focus on love.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.
— Warren Buffett
What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.
— Esther Jno-Charles
Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing.
— Winifred Gallagher
Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
It took greater energy to be able to focus when heardthe voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift their attention rapidly around the room and zero in on amiable or neutral visages, thus short-circuiting the distressing images before they can get stored in memory.
— Winifred Gallagher
this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.
— Winifred Gallagher
Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects he philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed,--indeed, rapt--attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime.
— Winifred Gallagher
Recently, the search for what he calls "the splinters that make up different attention problems" has taken Castellanos in a new direction. First, he explains that your brain is far less concerned with your brilliant ideas or searing emotions than with its own internal "gyroscopic busyness," which consumes 65 percent of its total energy. Every fifty seconds, its activity fluctuates, causing what he calls a "brownout." No one knows the purpose of these neurological events, but Castellanos has a thesis: the clockwork pulses enable the brain's circuits to stay "logged on" and available to communicate with one another, even when they're not being used. "Imagine you're a cabdriver on your day off," Castellanos says. "You don't need to use your workday circuits on a Sunday, but to keep those channels open, your brain sends a ping through them every minute or so. The fluctuations are the brain's investment in maintaining its circuits online.
— Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
Attention is a resource as abundant as sunlight. It streams outward all day long whether we choose to tap into it or not. By developing conscious focus of our attention, we learn to harness one of the greatest creative powers available to humankind, one that happens to be freely available within ourselves at all times.
— Scott Edmund Miller
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
— Henry James, Roderick Hudson
In a variation on James's recipe for interesting experience--the familiar leavened by the novel--Hobbs's "art of choosing difficulties" requires selecting projects that are "just manageable." If an activity is too easy, you lose focus and get bored. If it's too hard, you become anxious, overwhelmed, and unable to concentrate. Tellingly, one group is distinguished by its zeal for the kind of work that requires you to give it all you've got: high achievers particularly relish taking on risky projects that have only a 50/50 chance of success.
— Winifred Gallagher
What you focus on grows!
— Kelli Wilson, The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever
However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that "people start ruminating and feeling that their lives are wasted and so forth.
— Winifred Gallagher
Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.
— Winifred Gallagher
Every road leads somewhere. The challenge is to pick the right road and then to stay on it.
— Brent M. Jones
Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in the course of which peculiarities of character are being developed, or important interests canvassed; she takes no part in int; her humble, feminine mind is wholl with her knitting; none of her features move; she neither presumes to smile approval, nor frown disapprobation; her little hands assiduously ply their unpretending task; if she can only get this purse finished, or this bonnet-grec completed, it is enough for her.
— Charlotte Brontë, The Professor
A little distraction often helps you come back with sharper focus.
— Tapan Ghosh
Being in integrity’ only means all your senses are just focusing on that task, in that moment!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.
— Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World. A Spiritual Revolution
It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.
— Sheba Karim, That Thing We Call a Heart
We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.
— Ron Baratono
Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
Life is too short to major the MINOR and MINOR the major. Make the main thing the main thing and the world will make you the MAIN man
— Sesan Kareem
Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?
— Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
Without focus you are nothing and nobody......Everything is up to focusing and DEFINITELY YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING CRUCIAL.
— Deyth Banger
This is the definition of clutter: things that exist in your outer life to distract you from the inner things that you're avoiding. If you avoid something, it grows.... The great thing is, the reverse is also true: when you honestly look at something, it shrinks. When you see the situation for what it is, bypassing the emotional layers that coloured it and made it into a clutter monster, it becomes simple. That's how peaceful clutter busting is. You're honestly looking at each layer of distraction, questioning the thing, letting it go, and realizing what's underneath. Looking directly at something has the power of a magnifying glass in the sun. The sun is you; the glass, your attention
— Brooks Palmer
...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. My husband said that being President of the United States meant that you saw more kinds of people, took up more subjects, and learn more about a variety of things than anyone else. But it required complete concentration on the person you were with and on what he was saying. When that person left the room, you pulled down a shade in your mind, and you were ready, with your attention free, for what the next person had to say. You might have to shift from banking to forestry, but each subject had the attention and concentration it required and each, in turn, was put in the back of the mind, ready to be called upon when needed.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.
— Jim Butcher, Storm Front
Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Focused men are painfully attractive.
— Catherine Lowell
Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler.
— Jeffrey Fry
The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Half of what we do depends on how smart we are, the other half depends upon how we do it
— James E. Brown Jr.
Each day, wake up with a plan. Don’t just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
You need to be focused on what the Lord has entrusted in you
— Sunday Adelaja
The pursuit of your vision determines your focus
— Sunday Adelaja
Too much focus on miracles create a beggarly mentality.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you focus on all that you could have been it will never be... but if you focus on who you are and what's ahead you will always become.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention
— Sunday Adelaja
God wants us to focus on doing His will, His purpose; because He knows that only in doing that will we be fulfilled
— Sunday Adelaja
If you don’t want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t make miracle your focus
— Sunday Adelaja
Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own territory
— Sunday Adelaja
Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise
— Sunday Adelaja
Things are not working for us because our focus is lost
— Sunday Adelaja
When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you
— Sunday Adelaja
When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated
— Sunday Adelaja
Determined is a quiet inner resolve, focused on your purpose.
— Colin Myles, Life Positioning: 27 Success habits to increase your personal value
Let not miracle be your focus but be strong in diligence which is an eternal virtue.
— Sunday Adelaja
Eternal virtues like perseverance is what should be our focus and not miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles
— Sunday Adelaja
Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not.
— Sunday Adelaja
Focus on miracles brings selfishness.
— Sunday Adelaja
Focus on miracles brings about self-gratification.
— Sunday Adelaja
If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.
— Sunday Adelaja
When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied.
— Sunday Adelaja
Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.
— Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You have the power to bring out the best or worst in people. Focus on the good in people and that is what you will get more of. Focus on peoples potential and you can bring out the best in them. The power is in your focus.
— Jeanette Coron
Focus on the objective, execute the process to get there.
— Edwin Dearborn, Power Branding Secrets: Spark Customer Interest and Ignite Your Sales
In scientific discovery, it’s not the subject or object reveals the information to the scientist, but the awareness field of his own mind, reveals the details, at the time of deep focus on the subject or object.
— Roshan Sharma
I came to understand that in life: some make it happen, some watch it happen and some say, "What happened?". The beauty is, as long as you are alive you can choose in which category you want to belong
— Cherry MPIO
Focus is a weapon as much as much as your bow.
— Erin Summerill, Ever the Hunted
The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it’s hard for anything to get in the way.
— Ufuoma Apoki, The Return of Lucas
Great leaders think beyond yesterday, deal with the issues of today and focus on addressing the problems of tomorrow.
— Gift Gugu Mona
We have two eyes... two hands... two legs... but we can focus on one!??!?Naah, lie double and triple... I can focus on 2 and do 3...
— Deyth Banger
A five-year-old who can follow the ball for ten minutes becomes a sixth grader who can start his homework on time.
— Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus.
— Deyth Banger
Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends.
— Oliver Sacks, Gratitude
Don't let someone feel like they are following you and don't let yourself feel like you are following someone.
— Cyc Jouzy
Focus on what you like and forget about what you don't like, before it drains all your energy.Full equipment on the hands of an empty mind is useless, I prefer a full mind with empty hands.
— Cyc Jouzy
I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow,no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.
— Auliq-Ice
I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Fashion is a distraction!
— Cyc Jouzy
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that sustained and consecutive thought. It is the hardest work in the world.
— Leslie Householder, The Jackrabbit Factor: Why You Can
In the game of football, you least complain, shout, talk or blame your opponents or the referee continuously throughout the game just because of your opponents opposition, strength or antics to ensure that you lose focus and lose the game; winning the game is your true aim. Such is life! You must do all you ought to do to score your goals notwithstanding the oppositions and how life will play the game of life with you! Be a goal getter!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.
— Ufuoma Apoki
The whole hard work in achieving any goal is not in the means of achieving greater heights, but in the courage in fulfilling the simple yet daunting tasks.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Never settle... go after your dreams aggressively. Ignore the doubters, step over them. Stay focus on your prize.
— Michael Barbarulo, God's Healing Hands, Volume II: 160 Ways to Find Peace Within Yourself
Some have eyes but they can't see. Some can see but have no eyes
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
What I must do is all that concerns me,
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
It's hard to focus on loud mod to read something like the TV is playing something like Advertising and other boredom stuff and stupid and you are reading an article about topics which are difficult one.
— Deyth Banger
When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!
— Deyth Banger
I really don't want to go in a place and to repeat the stuff like to watch Limitless all day, one moment I get bored I need to focus on something else.
— Deyth Banger
All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.
— Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
Focus on the mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep focus to realize the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whatever you focus on expands.
— Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
Every morning, you have a choice either to make your day relaxed or stressful. To be thankful for what you have or to complain about what you don’t have. To count your achievements and celebrate them, or to dwell on the mistakes of your past and feel bad. To take action to make things better, or to continue on in mediocrity.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.
— Shannon L. Alder
Focus is a mental commitment to winning against all odds. Focus is beyond putting things together in order to reach a goal. Focus is longing for the goal; it is conditioning self to connect with the forces needed to achieve said goal. Focus is beyond toiling day and night, it is the mind's eye seeing only the harvests of the future and oblivious of the challenges of the present.
— Asuni LadyZeal
When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.
— David Clark, WTF!: Life Is Not Always What It Seems
He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
If you focus your mind on “not wanting” something, you are giving energy to and manifesting the thing you do not want. If you worry or fixate on a problem, you are channeling energy to maintain the problem. Focus thoughts and beliefs on the solution, and do not fixate on the problem.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
The importance of cultivating assumption of the best intentions in others cannot be over-estimated. Fostering this principal of, "goodness of intent,” and committing to seeing others and the world through this lens makes for a successful, happy field of vision. This enables us to put our focus and energy to positive, productive outcomes. It lends to a spirit of cooperation and encouragement which is highly effective and satisfying for most people most of the time. That being said, these "rose colored glasses," as vibrant and pleasing as they are, must not become an excuse to look the other way when something needs a different focus, or fixed. We must not let them become blinders which are obviously ineffective, often negative, and occasionally dangerous.
— Connie Kerbs
I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Focus your heart-felt intuition onto things that really matter to you.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Focus your intuitive thoughts to identify what is truly worth pursuing.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
It is what you pursue that gains focus in your life.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens.
— Joshua Foer
If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Secret to Productivity is single tasking: Focus only on one task at hand. And don't start another till that one is completely done
— Vivek Naik, Get More Done Easily: Time Management Mindsets and Simple Exercise to Organize Your Day and be More Productive in 5 Days
A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.
— Timothy Egan
One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.
— Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
The Key to Staying Focused is to know what to Eliminate and then Doing so.
— David C. Alves
His hands go to my waist—my waist! And they feel so right. I like this closeness. Maybe I like it too much. A guy has never been this close to me. Never. And I can’t believe it’s happening, even if it is to keep from being arrested.My heart beats frantically. Isaiah is hot and scary and hot. Why on earth would a guy like him want to be anywhere near a girl like me?It’s the adrenaline rush. That’s what it is. I like how he feels because I’m still experiencing the adrenaline rush from Isaiah’s NASCAR driving skills. His arm shifts, and I love how that movement causes his muscles to flex.Stop it, Rachel. It’s not real. Focus.
— Katie McGarry, Crash into You
Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.
— Emmanuel Ayensu
It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.
— Emmanuel Ayensu
I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?
— James Carl Nelson, Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
I am trying not to philosophize. It is un-military. I think I can dig myself out of my academic mind and make an efficient officer.
— James Carl Nelson, Five Lieutenants: The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework.
— Greg Pincus, The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?
— Nikki Rowe
It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction. The less it was occupied with healthy things, the more it would be in danger of turning in the unhealthy direction. He may have observed himself, and made the discovery.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
We love to quote the saying “Rome was not built in a day” but we fail to remember that Rome was eventually built, and it must have been so magnificent that when people admired it, they were told that it didn’t happen in just a day. The question, then, is: if Rome was not built in a day, how was it built? Answer: It was built every day.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Sebitically Speaking
The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.
— Jay Woodman
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
If you stay focused on one task or thought at a time you will less likely become frustrated.
— Sheryl Campbell
Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.
— Patrick Hennessey, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time And Fighting Wars
Sometimes we feel that the busier we are, the more important we are--as though our busyness defines our worth...We can spend a lifetime whirling about at a feverish pace, checking off list after list of things that in the end really don't matter.That we do a lot may not be so important. That we focus the energy of our minds, our hearts, and our souls on those things of eternal significance--that is essential.--Joseph B. Wirthlin
— Carolyn J. Rasmus, Simplify: A Guide To Caring For The Soul
A line is like a role model, It contributes in straightening our focus.
— DaVyshka
The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked