Quotes About Focus

It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.

Work, at times like this, is a sweet mercy: it allows a man to forget anything, even his true self.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time writing essays.

Ma dove troverò mai il tempo per non leggere tante cose?

Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.

Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

The experts counter by saying that travel is so rewarding that it should take precedence over other things younger people spend money on. They believe travel has special benefits for the young because it broadens their horizons, helps them to find a focus for their lives, and challenges them in new ways.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.

Whatever we choose to focus our attention on will automatically multiply in our lives.

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

You must use your mind and not let it use you.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

their heads popping up prairie-dog style from their cubes.

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.

si nous avons assez d'une chose, à tort ou à raison, nous n'avons qu'à nous occuper d'une autre ; rien ne nous oblige à la vilipender ; qui s'est trop occupé d'Aristote peut aller jouer du violon

In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: 'If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?' (Rom.8:31, 32).

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.