Quotes About Focus

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

I have this unbeatable move where no matter what happens I can catch the line - it's the number one thing I practice - so my philosophy there is martial arts based, never putting myself in a position where I can receive a lethal blow. I haven't missed catching the line for over fifteen years.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Customer-centricity is unbelievably important.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

The warrior must never get angry in war.

If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.