Quotes About Focus

If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

When I'm in focus mode, I do training six times a week. Carbs only in the morning. And I try not to eat at least two hours before bed.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said 'let's see what happens.'

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.

Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.