Quotes About Focus

I expect you know, with your intuitive senses, that he's been after Lily." "Sort of, yes." "I need to talk to you about him, but not yet." He came back to Daniel, took his hands in his own. "Tonight is ours. I want to forget Othman, Lily, everything. Just for a while.

You must learn and remember that where your intention goes, so energy flows.

He suppressed any thought of Ishtahar and tried to concentrate on the lithe, young body against him.

He wished Owen would move his hands. It was impossible to think when they lay upon his body.

It's Owen we have to concern ourselves with, not Barbara. She is nothing.

Fear not, my lovely. You are still a major part of my design. In the meantime, concentrate on Lily Winter. She should be the focus of your energies at this time.

Practical problems are not within the scope of my interest.

At the beginning of any magical working, take few minutes to concentrate on your breathing. This helps to alter your state of consciousness and also improves the flow of life energy within the body.

Gods are functional only for their names being used in oaths. They lend a pungency, a focus to sharp remarks.

Jay felt she could sense the overlapping layers of reality all around, just beyond her perception. But how could she see them? She felt it might be similar to the way the eyes could focus on a computer generated image, and perceive a shape in the chaotic pattern. If she concentrated hard enough, she was sure an image would suddenly loom before her, clear and definite.

If hunting was his province, mind-seeking was mine.

The events of the last few months have broken down into essential components in my mind: archetype, symbol, myth. I feel that everything is softly falling into focus: soon my eyes will be clear, I shall see the whole picture. Such a pity that, now, it is irrelevent to me.

Don't fall for the glamour, beloved. We need our wits about us today.

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The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase.

That's what I have told people who have asked for advice through the years: focus on what is beautiful and pursue that beauty.

Our priorities are misplaced when we are giving our greatest attention to temporary things of this world, rather than to Christ and pleasing Him.

Love is a quality of attention, a way of focusing on someone.

You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.

Since there is no way we can ultimately prevent it, perhaps our time would be better spent focusing on improving and savouring the period between our birth and our death: our life.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.