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Quotes About Focus

I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.
~ Bruce Lee
When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind. The
~ Bruce Lee
Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.
~ Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~ Bruce Lee
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
~ Bruce Lee
if you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done
~ Bruce Lee
There was nothing haphazard about Bruce's training regime, neither was he particularly "lucky" in having started out with natural physical gifts. The greatest talents that Bruce brought to realizing his dreams were intelligence and curiosity (hand in hand, a powerful combination), dedication and perseverance (stick-to-itiveness even in the face of intervening obstacles), and focus (enjoying the journey as much as the destination).
~ Bruce Lee
The less effort you put in, the more powerful you will be.
~ Bruce Lee
physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.
~ Bruce Lee
the whip of the arm is caused by turning the body away from the arm until the range of movement in the shoulder joint is completely used. Then, the arm must turn with the body. Executed quickly, this causes the arm to whip forward as if released from a bow.
~ Bruce Lee
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
~ Bruce Lee
Balance your thoughts with action.
~ Bruce Lee
It's not daily increase but daily decrease—hack away the unessentials!
~ Bruce Lee
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
~ Bruce Lee
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~ Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
~ Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
~ Bruce Lee
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
~ Bruce Lee
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!
~ Bruce Lee
Bloom's intention was to communicate the idea that knowledge is the foundation of skills development, not that it is more important to focus on teaching skills than knowledge
~ Bruce Robertson
Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.
~ Bruce Robertson
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Meaningless distraction drains you of the energy you should be placing into more serious things or using to simply enjoy the rewards of your labor.
~ Bruce Springsteen
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
~ Bruce Vento