Quotes About Focus

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

Travel light, Arrive quickly.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

Keep your focus on your passion in life and the things you enjoy doing. Youll get there. Trust me. I'm doing it.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.