Quotes About Focus

It is hard to sit down to write, or work on other creative projects, if we are "beside ourselves" rather than centered from the core on out.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.

Worse still, Wally has hillbilly ADD.  He'll start telling you about a snake he killed or some chesty woman he saw and then branch off into weather because a cloud caught his eye or complain about his itchy socks, wish he'd eaten more for lunch.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

The still point in a turning world.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name.

You all of you try to talk as if nothing had happened, And yet you are talking of nothing else. Why not get to the point Or if you want to pretend that I am another person— A person that you have conspired to invent, please do so In my absence. I shall be less embarrassing to you. Agatha?

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which is a task in the same sense as the making of an efficient engine or the turning of a jug or a table-leg.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. I say: take no thought of the harvest, But only of proper sowing.

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

Aquello en lo que nos concentramos se expande, y cuando nos concentramos en las bondades de la vida, creamos más bondad. Las nuevas oportunidades, mis relaciones con los demás, hasta el dinero empezaron a aparecer con más frecuencia en mi camino cuando aprendí a ser agradecida en toda circunstancia de mi vida.» –OPRAH WINFREY

They don't have to be big goals. A small one each day. They're like handholds and toeholds as you climb the bigger mountain. Ultimately, you will get to the top of the mountain, but in the moment you only need to focus on the next ledge.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from The Untouchables to you: At the end of your shift, go home alive. She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard--just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

She fixed her mind on stone in the soles of her feet and on the song of the mountains, and kept going

You are already for something. Do you know for what?

How could she not know he was thinking about sex? he wondered. It was all he'd been thinking about for the last eighteen hours, give or take a few minutes spent thinking about keeping them both alive. Oh, yeah, and twice he'd thought about food, once about her mother, and once he'd checked to make sure he had an extra mag for his Glock.

Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg heile dagen, og dersom eg vaknar om natta.

Don't look for the needle. Buy the haystack.

Just write it!