Quotes About Focus

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Boards don't hit back.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times

Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.

I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!

To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.

Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.