Quotes About Focus

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

When it comes to believing in yourself, put your eye on the mark and don't blink. If you have a goal, a dream, or an aspiration…believe in yourself while you are on the way to your destination, and you will have already arrived.

Ignore him and he is intrigued. Make him the center of attention all the time and he runs.

When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

The answer: Multitasking will not bring greater value. You will feel you are achieving more and more as you accomplish less and less. You will be asked, outright, "Why go through the anxiety of separating from all of your connections to focus on the small group you are with?" The answer: The more you talk to your colleagues, the greater your productivity.

You can't think about thinking without thinking about something

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

The best movies are simple.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it – the rest it's just movement.

The medicine for that is to remember that the main goal in meditation is not to get to certain good states, but rather to eliminate what gets in the way of those good states. If you do that, those good states will be available any time you wish.

meditation elevates a person's base level of focus. By focus, I mean the ability to attend to what's relevant in a given situation.

Is meditation really that valuable? Yes it is, because a person's base level of concentration is, in a sense, the most valuable thing that they have. Anything a person may want will be more easily attained if they are functioning from a high level of effortless focus. The entire range of human endeavors relies on concentration, and if your base level of concentration is elevated through practice, it means that you can function from a continuous state of extraordinary focus every day.

On one hand, deeper and deeper meditative states become available. On the other, you are able to maintain those states throughout more and more complex activities of life. We might refer to the first dimension of growth as depth and the second dimension of growth as breadth.

your attention is pointed directly toward the richness of the Source.

The myriad of complex meanings is simplified into a tetrad of basic states: mental image without any accompanying mental talk, mental talk without any accompanying mental image, image and talk at the same time, or absence of both image and talk (a moment of total mental tranquility).

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.

Super achievers don't waste time in unproductive thoughts, esoteric thoughts or catastrophic thoughts. They think constructively and they know that their level of thinking determines their success.

Educated people recognise their limitations but focus on their strengths.

Most people want to win in life but very few are willing to pay the price to prepare to win.

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