Quotes About Focus

But regrets don't help. We have to forget about what we couldn't do and concentrate on what we can.

His thoughts drifted randomly, as thoughts will do.

There are always obstacles to the things we want most, Drisker Arc, but we don't need to dwell on them. We need to make them disappear!

Hide the ideas," he wrote, "but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden."2 To accomplish this required great focus and economy of means on the part of the director, a rigorous and austere quest for purity of expression. "Everything should not be shown, or there is no art; art lies in suggestion. . . . Mystery should be preserved; since we live in mystery, mystery should be on the screen."3 He proposes several ways to achieve this end.

think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Think of the solution, not the problem.

it didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything.

You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Piensa en la solución, no en el problema.

Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing. That was the meaning of the starburst symbol: look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of all else—don't allow the enemy to direct your vision, or you will see what he wishes you to see. He will then come at you as you become bewildered, looking for his attack, and you will lose.

to think of the solution—and not the problem.

Think about the solution, he told himself, not the problem;

For now we have enough to worry about. Let's not invent new things.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this.

Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!

Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time, said Tiffany, but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.

DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.

Cake is not the issue here.

A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits.