Quotes About Focus

Un jovencito melenudo hace versos entre la baraúnda. Está evadido, no se da cuenta de nada; es la única manera de poder hacer versos hermosos. Si mirase para los lados se le escaparía la inspiración. Eso de la inspiración debe ser como una mariposita ciega y sorda, pero muy luminosa; si no, no se explicarían muchas cosas.

It was electrifying the way he watched her so carefully that he forgot himself.

At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, "I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up!

SImplicity is focusing my attention on what I want to create and experience.

you, bringing serenity in those moments when you are most absorbed in a project.

Work smarter, not harder

The person who recognizes the strategy of Too Many Details sees the forest while simultaneously being able to see the few trees that really matter.

Imagine a widely televised report: "Dolphin attacks swimmer!" Such a story would make a new connection in the minds of literally millions of people: Dolphins are dangerous to man (which they are not). Though unusual animal-attack stories are good news fodder, humans are not the favored prey of any predator. (We are somewhat bony, low on meat, and smart as the Dickens.) The point is that your survival brilliance is wasted when you focus on unlikely risks. Unfortunately

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.

On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.

This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If

Your worry-thoughts, particularly if you find yourself recycling the same ones over and over, are a flag waving at you from your Zone of Genius. Something is trying to get your attention.

notice myself worrying about something. I let go of the worry-thoughts, shifting my focus away from them. I wonder: what positive new thing is trying to come into being?

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Me gustaba tan poco pisar en falso como iniciar a tientas un nuevo movimiento. Por eso practicaba tanto, para encontrarme en terreno seguro y perfeccionar luego los detalles.

Her eyes were open, then on me again like they never left.

Where you need to be?" he asked me. And I had the strangest thought: Right here is where I need to be.

Girls have always been the best distractions. Until a girl became the thing I needed distraction from

And I realize that before there's a next, there's a now that needs attending to.

Mientras lo miro, es como si solo fuéramos nosotros dos. Solo Willem y yo. Todo lo demás desaparece: el sonido de los timbres de las bicicletas y las campanadas del tranvía desaparecen. El grupo de chicos ruidosos sentados junto a nosotros desaparece. Los otros actores desaparecen. El último año desaparece. Todas mis dudas desaparecen. El sentimiento de estar en el camino correcto llena cada parte de mí. Lo he encontrado. Aquí. Como Orlando. Todo me ha llevado a esto.

But the memories... one pops up, I push it away and then another appears.

On Mondays and Tuesdays, I tend to do blackout periods where I shut off email and Slack, so there's no way for people to get in touch with me. I put my phone in another room and that's how I get stuff done. - Matt Raible