Quotes About Focus

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the spirit within.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Don't let house or garden climb on your back and stick there. And unclutter your mind from any idea that you have to do a thousand things before other people do them.

Worry is wasting today's time cluttering up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.

I have found that the temple of the undistracted mind must be housed in an uncluttered environment. A basement or garret is invaluable, but they, too, must be uncluttered, even though they hold many essential things used only occasionally...

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.

Vision is the foundation of courage and the fuel of persistence.

It was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.

This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal... His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal... This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Have cognition before ignition.

Visualize your long-term goals to paint your short-term actions on the canvas of now.

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

As a matter of fact, golf is the most rigid tester of will-power in the world.

One can only see clearly If one is going slowly. Quick motion creates life-blur.

I believe that yoga has provided me with energy and focus that I would not have possessed otherwise.

Come on inner peace — I don't have all day.

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time.