Quotes About Focus

In raiding and plundering be like fire, is immovability like a mountain.

Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks.

Au petit matin, les esprits sont pénétrants ; durant la journée, ils s'alanguissent, et le soir, ils rentrent à la maison.

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En la guerra, el verdadero objetivo es alcanzar la victoria, y no realizar campañas largas.

A wise warrior never gets lost when he goes; he's never in confusion, when acting.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own then I can concentrate and he must divide.

A whole army may be robbed of its spirit; a commander-in-chief may be robbed of his presence of mind.

many people beat their meat but only true warriors defeat it

In war, appreciate victory, not a prolonged campaign.

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.

It's not getting it right the first time--it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.

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Most people when you get up close are not more in focus, but less.

Whatever else you may need to get clarity, you must start with open eyes.

When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents.

It was not a question of knowledge...but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought about something, once it swam into the stream of attention.

Work is experienced as discipline--the background of which is ascesis--even though it also gives pleasure. One is allowed to become depersonalized in work, to forget the self (to lose contact with its most intimate feelings and needs)--indeed all that is necessary if one is to give oneself fully to the work.

In one of its aspects, art is a technique for focusing attention, for teaching skills of attention. The history of the arts is tantamount to the discovery & formulation of a repertory of objects on which to lavish attention. (Oscar Wilde pointed out that people didn't see fogs before certain nineteenth-century poets & painters taught them how to; & surely, no one saw as much of the variety & subtlety of the human face before the era of the movies.)

Do stuff, be clenched, curious, not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention, it's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality, it connects you with others. It makes you eager, stay eager.

What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.

Don't walk in circles. Walk in a straight line. At least you'll end up somewhere.

there are some things you don't have a choice about, but there's plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive.

To be in the game, but not playing with the intent to win, is to be the enemy.