Quotes About Focus

If I have any fault, it is digression

The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.

He who has got rid of the disease 'Tomorrow' has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Go for efficiency, elegance, and grace in your motions; avoid hasty shortcuts. Rather than thinking about getting the job finished and going on to something else, stay wholly focused on the moment, on the task at hand. Above all, don't hurry. You might discover that by not hurrying you'll finish the dishes sooner than would ordinarily be the case.

Intentionality. To cultivate a positive attitude is to take a large step on the path of mastery in relationships. In addition, mental toughness (the ability to focus on a problem or a long-term goal) combined with openness and imagination (the ability to see options and visualize desired states) can be applied to relationships as well as to sports, or anything else.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

Relaxation is essential for the full expression of power.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.

Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.