Quotes About Focus

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Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatad?r.

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

The strongest man is always the man of one idea. Devoting to it all his energy, his will, his intelligence, his nervous tension, he often becomes irresistible. Mary Baker was one of these exemplars among monomaniacs, for from 1862 onwards she possessed, or rather was possessed by, one idea and one only.

chess is a game of pure thought involving no element of chance

nothing that one has ever done with devotion is done in vain.

Monomaniacs of any kind, those people fixated by a single idea, have been a source of fascination for me my whole life, for the more a man limits his field of vision, the closer he is, conversely, to the infinite; those very people who seem so remote from the world construct with their own unique material, termite-like, a remarkable and completely unique shorthand for the world itself.

Todo lo que de extraordinario y más poderodo se produce en nuestra existencia se logra sólo a través de una monomanía sublime, sagradamente emparentada con la locura

There are two kinds: an eye for details, which discovers new things, and a fixed look that follows only a ready-made plan and speeds it up for the moment.

Virgil cheered me up with his usual gentle logic, helping me get some perspective larger than the pencil point of reality my focus had narrowed into.

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of meditation, this simple but essential step involves turning your mind away from its usual preoccupation with external events — or, just as often, with the story it tells you about external events — and toward your inner sensate experience. If you're like most people, you're so caught up with what's happening around you

These four practices—concentration, receptive awareness, cultivation, and contemplation—constitute the major uses of awareness throughout the world's great meditative traditions.

Buddhists like to compare the mind to a monkey—constantly chattering and hopping about from branch to branch, topic to topic.

When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.

I could do it… I've seen every last episode of Forensics Files." Me, too! But I've never considered it a tutorial. The

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." —Earl Nightingale

Looking back over fifty years of science and environmental education, I find that the main thing I have taught is how to pay attention.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.