Quotes About Focus

The clear thinker is suddenly at war with himself and flow is lost.

One idea I taught was the importance of regaining presence and clarity of mind after making a serious error.

The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice, the more present we will be in competition, in the boardroom, at the exam, the operating table, the big stage. If we have any hope of attaining excellence, let alone of showing what we've got under pressure, we have to be prepared by a lifestyle of reinforcement. Presence must be like breathing.

I was unhindered by internal conflict—a state of being that I have come to see as fundamental to the learning process.

I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

It is difficult to walk, talk, eat, exercise, make love, or drive an automobile while reading.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

your eyes will be drawn to one small odd thing among all the thousands of others—the thing that calls to you, and suddenly, out of everything else your eyes are taking in and disregarding, they'll focus on this one spot where something doesn't make sense, or maybe it spells danger, or it just reminds you of a time and place different from this one. And you can't look away.

Qué fuerza de realiadad tienen los pensamientos de la gente que piensa poco y, sobre todo, que no divaga. A veces dicen "buenos días", pero de qué manera tan inteligente.

La gente piensa demasiado. Siempre consideran un montón de escenarios diferentes, dentro de diez años, dentro de veinte años, el cielo, el infierno, las consecuencias [...]. Pero lo importante, lo real es el aquí. El ahora. El instante preciso. No hay nada más, no existe ningún instante más allá del ahora mismo.

Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.

to practice is to pay attention to your whole life: your thoughts, your bodily sensations, and your speech and other actions.

Commit yourself to doing what is possible. Make a list of what you have to do tomorrow; eliminate activities that are unnecessary, and reschedule those that can and should be postponed

E-mail is an "opener," not a closer. Open it up first thing in the morning and you're off on a dozen different tasks. Instead, close something from the day before. Finish something first before you open something new.

Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention.

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

To lose weight, I'm going to have to train myself to do what I need to do, not what I feel like doing at the moment.