Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Stay Focused: Inspiring Quotes to Help You Concentrate - page 19
It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.
Jeremy Denk
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
Pauline Oliveros
What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.
Helene D. Gayle
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
Barbara Damrosch
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting
Julie Christie
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
Maria Sharapova
When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there'll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you.
Beth Moore
Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
Adrien Brody
One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.
Matt Hardy
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
Aberjhani
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?
Anna Deavere Smith
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
David Trimble
