Tag Archive for focus

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Swami Vivekananda

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
- Swami Vivekananda

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
- Paul J. Meyer

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
- Og Mandino

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
- Og Mandino

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi