If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better. . . . or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do. . . . But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. . . . It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.
Robert Louis Stevenson. . . I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.
Stop focusing on what you cant do, focus on what God can do.
It is a mistake to expect all of our needs to be met by one person or in one relationship. Honor and be grateful for that which you receive. Don't become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
Stop focusing on the bad stuff because life is too damn short.
What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.
I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.
You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.
Focusing on solutions fuels progress.
Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.
Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.