Quotes About Focus

each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.

If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight.

Concentra la tua energia nel costruire il nuovo, non nel combattere il vecchio.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Si eres demasiado listo, puedes perderte lo esencial».

Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.

The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called "Peacefully Remaining" or "Calm Abiding.

If all but one of the instruments on a surgeon's tray had been sterilized, that exception would be a danger to the patient. It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.

It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

In one study, researchers used an iPhone app to check in on people at random points throughout the day and found that the more people were thinking about something other than what they were doing, the less happy they felt. Even when they weren't thinking about anything particularly bad.

Being lucky in love might be less a matter of luck and more a matter of paying attention.

When one has a driving preoccupation [...] it colours the way one sees the world.

Em vez de desperdiçar toda a minha energia reagindo às muitas coisas ruins que tinham me acontecido, ia correr atrás de uma coisa boa.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose. It doesn't matter all that much, and maybe there's no wrong choice.

The Guest Speaker I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks. For his and for procedure's sake I have to keep myself awake. However long his talk might take (And, Christ, it feels like weeks) I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand