Quotation Explorer - 'Focusing'

How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, "Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you. - Jayde Scott
Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes. - Gary Hopkins
By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society. - Debasish Mridha
Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing. - Stephen Richards
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The conscious mind is intended as a focusing tool, not a storing place. - Matthew Perman
Through the practice of meditation, of calming and focusing our mind, as well as developing greater clarity and a sense of awareness, we train ourselves to recognize the wealth that was already there - the very wealth others fail to recognize. - Stephen Richards
If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present. - Roy Bennett
Depression is focusing on yourself; on your troubles and what is not right. You can't be depressed if you are focusing on others. It's impossible. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people. - Steve Jobs
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts. - Gordana Biernat
Keep focusing on God and all things will work out. - Ray S. Jones
Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future. - Charles F. Glassman
Focusing is about saying No. - Steve Jobs
Focusing on scarcitywill only create moreof the same. - Domonique Bertolucci
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part. - Seth Godin
If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now. - Nikki Rowe
Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better. - Debasish Mridha
Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success - Asuni LadyZeal
The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment. - Debasish Mridha
After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not. - Shauna James Ahern
If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life. - Kemi Sogunle
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it. - Dale Ludwig
People say you can't have peace without a war, but on the contrary they say they don't support war. You can not, ever achieve happiness from focusing on suffering, you have to change your perspective. World peace starts with Inner peace. - Mark Ryan
Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you. - Ellen J. Barrier
Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like. - Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi
A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust. - Debasish Mridha
Grounding is taking a conscious effort to retract oneself from the world’s distractions, and then focusing on listening to isolate the voice of God within from the voice of the ego. The voice of God within is where all the answers lie. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing. - Leo Babauta
we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change,start focusing on what you can. - Alexandra Elle
Success comes to those who do not waste time looking and criticizing what others are doing but focusing on honest self-evaluation and what they have to do. - Amit Abraham
You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be. - Deborah Day
One does not change a feeling by focusing on that feelings. One changes a feeling by changing one's behaviors and or one's thoughts - Dennis Cogswell
Why do we keep focusing on the minutiae, not the possible significant large events, in spite of the obvious evidence of their huge influence? - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
20 percent customers give you 80 percent of the business? Are you focusing on them? - Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness. - Debasish Mridha
I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side - Damon Gameau
Start focusing your attention on the people that God puts you with, even if they hate you, even if they persecute you and speak bad things about you. Work with them and pray for them! - Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing. - Debasish Mridha
Only by focusing on God can we reach our goal. - Sunday Adelaja
Life is all about focusing on the goal, not on the donut hole. - Debasish Mridha
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. - Eraldo Banovac
Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless. - Brandon Cella
It is a total mystery how we evolved minds capable of piloting cars through wild maneuvers using a wrist to steep while shouting at a cell phone. The creationists are fools for focusing on animal evolution. Darwin explains nature! He has more difficulty explaining us. - David Brin
We become extremely vulnerable to the ones that love us, we believe in what they say, we believe in their faith held next to us. It's law of attraction to become who your surrounded by, so instead of focusing of changing another, find some one suitable to your soul. - Nikki Rowe
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