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“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
― Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.”
― Mollie Marti

“If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future.”
― Germany Kent

“If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you �� envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.”
― Esther Jno-Charles

“Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.”
― Stephen Richards

“Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.”
― Brian Solis

“Hatred can't erase love memories.
You need to focus on anything else.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it is free for the taking, for the taking in. Take it, take it in, take in more every weekend, every day, and quickly it becomes the theater that intrigues, relaxes, fascinates, seduces, and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness that at times becomes directed serendipity. Outside lies magic.”
― John Stilgoe

“It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage

“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)”
― Jeff Dixon-The Key To The Kingdom

“It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.”
― Stephen Richards

“I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.”
― Ricky Ponting

“Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“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.”
― Winifred Gallagher

“Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects he philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed,--indeed, rapt--attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime.”
― Winifred Gallagher

“this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.”
― Winifred Gallagher

“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.”
― Winifred Gallagher

“After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls "the consequences of mis-attention.”
― Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

“Recently, the search for what he calls "the splinters that make up different attention problems" has taken Castellanos in a new direction. First, he explains that your brain is far less concerned with your brilliant ideas or searing emotions than with its own internal "gyroscopic busyness," which consumes 65 percent of its total energy. Every fifty seconds, its activity fluctuates, causing what he calls a "brownout." No one knows the purpose of these neurological events, but Castellanos has a thesis: the clockwork pulses enable the brain's circuits to stay "logged on" and available to communicate with one another, even when they're not being used. "Imagine you're a cabdriver on your day off," Castellanos says. "You don't need to use your workday circuits on a Sunday, but to keep those channels open, your brain sends a ping through them every minute or so. The fluctuations are the brain's investment in maintaining its circuits online.”
― Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

“It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard
the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Handle the little things well; for they become the great things.”
― Flo Falayi

“The biggest thing holding you back is you. Start there.”
― Hunter Post

“Depth gets context when breadth gets attention.��”
― Richie Norton

“[...] The movement of the celestial bodies can be given as an example. It is not exactly circular, but elliptic; the ellipse constitutes as it were a first “specification�� of the circle, by the splitting of the center into two poles or “foci�� in the direction of one of the diameters which thereafter plays a special “axial�� part, while at the same time all the other diameters are differentiated one from another in respect of their lengths. It may be added incidentally in this connection that, since the planets describe ellipses of which the sun occupies one of the foci, the question arises as to what the other focus corresponds to; as there is nothing corporeal actually there, there must be something belonging only to the subtle order; but that question cannot be further examined here, as it would be quite outside our subject.”
― René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

“What I must do is all that concerns me,”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Don’t act based on religion; always have a purpose and focus”
― Sunday Adelaja

“How critical it is to stay focused on Jesus Christ.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House