Quotes About Focus

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Always remember that if this were not the Lord's work, the adversary would not pay attention to us.

I better put on my tool belt so I can think," and

Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.

How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves

always place truth and service before pleasure. Sometimes even committed and one-pointed people avoid the path in pursuit of momentary pleasures.

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

Even in moments of utter danger, a person like Mahatma Gandhi remained totally involved in his work.

When you don't worry whether you win or lose, or you don't even consider its effect, you give your hundred percent, then that is really playing, that is a real game.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

What we are looking for is what is looking.

We must take great care never to do anything before having said our morning prayers...The Devil once declared that if he could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest.

The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.

I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.

Duane just kept working, not even looking up.

Es gab einen, der ein halbes Leben an einem Gedanken saß - und die andere Hälfte für diesen Gedanken.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.