#focus

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#focus #humility #judgement #judgemental #self

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. But if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#changing #different #inattention #life #loss-of-focus

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#done #effort #first #first time #focused

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

#life-and-living #life-lessons #why #life

Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product. ↗

— Manoj Arora

#money #problem-solving #problems #freedom

It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#opening-up #perception #perception

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. ↗

— Colin Powell

#driving #focus #perception #strategy #perception

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#focus #god #humanity #mistakes #perfection

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#focus #oprah-winfrey #economics

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#education #fact #focused #good #how