Quotes About Focus

I hoped like hell they all had been paying attention…

Don't lose sight of the goal

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

But here is an important thing: you must practice not perfunctorily, but with all your intelligence and love,

That is why I hope you can keep up this continuity and sit for some time every day (if only for half hour, though two hours is better and five is remarkable and eight is bliss and transfiguration!) before your typewriter,- if not writing the just thoughtfully pulling your hair. (...) It takes an hour or two of vacant moodling, when nothing at all comes out on paper; and this is difficult always because it makes us (...) with our accomplishment-mania, feel uneasy and guilty.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves today.

When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.

Se continuarmos a nos concentrar exclusivamente na dualidade pecador/santo no jeito como vivemos e agimos, ignorando a oposição feroz entre o fariseu e a criança, o crescimento espiritual chegará, de repente, a um ponto de estagnação.

I recommend that you begin with short ten-minute meditation periods, once or twice a day, and over several weeks gradually lengthen your meditation periods to twenty-five minutes, even if you can only find time to do this once a day. Even for an experienced meditator, it often takes ten or fifteen minutes to really settle into a meditative state, and so it is not surprising that the minimum length of time for a meditation period in temples and monasteries is usually twenty-five minutes.

But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes. If the mind is occupied with the mechanical process of hearing and putting words on paper at pell-mell speed, I should not think one could pay much attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it is presented.

He could hear Matthews saying, 'Worry before, and you'll be prepared. Worry afterwards and you'll keep your feet on the ground. But don't worry during action; that's fatal.

The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-It on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it.

My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

Lauren frowned at Matthias. "We're not dating." It figured that was the part of the conversation she'd focus on. Garrett couldn't imagine what Matthias would do with that information later. "Are you sure?" Matthias asked. Lauren's frown only deepened. "Wouldn't I know?" "Given Garrett's skill with women? Possibly not.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

Ahora no es momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay

Think of the high-pressure situations you've been in, and the times you've performed well. You were probably enjoying the moment despite the pressure

Eliminating someone from an investigation is just as important as getting a positive lead.

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.

There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.

I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place.