Quotes About Focus

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

To add to truth distracts from it.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go... if it's not a part of your God-given destiny.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.