One cannot both feast and become rich.
—African Proverb
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
With all humility, I think, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author
If you are focused on “the way it’s supposed to be,” you might miss the opportunity to enjoy the way it is or to have it be wonderful in a totally different way from what you imagined.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
—Unknown
If we do not consciously and consistently focus on the spiritual part of ourselves, we will never experience the kind of joy, satisfaction, safety, and connectedness we are all seeking.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
To do two things at once is to do neither.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
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.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
—Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author
This one thing I do … I press on toward the mark.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
I know some people say “Keep your eyes on the prize,” but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you’re going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you’ve got to keep your eyes focused on the path.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
Often he who does too much does too little.
—Italian Proverb
Other people’s interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
—Brendan Behan (1923–64) Irish Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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 (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
—Robert C. Townsend (1920–98) American Businessman
You’re a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
The first rule of focus is “Wherever you are be there.”
—Unknown
It is a process of diverting one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.
—James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
—Stan Smith (b.1946) American Sportsperson
A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
It is only when I daily with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Think of many things, do only one.
—Common Proverb
There is time enough for every thing in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once ; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life.
—David Emerald
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