“Run and hide or rise and shine ...”
“Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence comes when you leave thoughts of imposibilities behind and live by the focus of faith and hope in the face of difficulty.”
“In order to pick something up, you ve got to put something down.”
“Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably.”
“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.”
“What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.”
“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.”
“Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what s important. It is a choice.”
“I don t spend a lot of time asking WHY? Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react. (p.180)”
“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”
“I wanna be the best in at least one thing in this life.”
“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.”
“When you try to persistently abolish hatred, at that very moment...you lose focus on love.”
“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.”