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“If you chase two rabbits, both will escape” — Anonymous
“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs
“Focusing is about saying No.” ― Steve Jobs
“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.” — Bill Gates
“Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’” — Marcus Aurelius
“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.” – Thomas Carlyle
“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.” – Daniel Goleman
“Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expending the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.” – Dan Millman
“Do whatever you do intensely.” — Robert Henri
“To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.” — Giorgio Armani
“If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.” – Leroy Hood
“When you are completely caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.” – Rollo May
“For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.” – Ray Knight
“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
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.” ― Bruce Lee
“Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.” — Tony Robbins
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” – Tony Robbins
“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.” — Tony Robbins
“Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you’re focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That’s why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.” — Tony Robbins
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” ― Paulo Coelho
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.” — Andrew Carnegie
“Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.” – Larry Page
“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” — Steve Case
“You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.’ – Tim Cook
“The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.” – Michael Jordan
“I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” – Venus Williams
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” – Dalai Lama
“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.” — Marianne Williamson
“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” – Jack Canfield
“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” – Sydney Madwed
“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.” — Brian Tracy
“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” – Ralph Marston
“Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.” ― Colin Powell
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle
“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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