Quotes About Focus

The reason a falcon is hooded is exactly the reason a falconer is not: the birds can see so well that they would most likely be distracted by other prey much further away. The falconer hoods the bird and waits. He wants the falcon to only see what he sees.

Like water, which heated to a hundred degrees will bear no increase of temperature, human thought attains in certain men its maximum intensity.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that's poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

I mentioned earlier how everything that was not connected with the immediate task of keeping oneself and one's closest friends alive lost its value.

think for some minutes about the meaning of life. Particularly about the meaning of the coming day and its meaning for me.

and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

giving him inner strength by pointing out to him a future goal to which he could look forward.

Podstata lidské existence spo?ívá v její sebetranscendenci. Být ?lovÄ›kem znamená vždy už být zam??en a nastaven na nÄ›co nebo nÄ›koho, být oddán nÄ›jakému dílu.

run. Never look back, and avoid the whole mess. Let

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't

He had the gift of all great tacticians. He could focus on the smallest detail and never lose sight of the overall picture.

Careful," Miller snapped, like a judge warning a wayward attorney, "we're not talking about feelings or opinions. We're sticking to the facts right now.

Imagine a tiny ant on the back of a massive African elephant. No matter how diligently that ant marches east, if the elephant he sits upon travels in the opposite direction, the ant will end up farther west than his starting point. Similarly, we will find ourselves receding from our goals if our conscious and subconscious minds are not aligned.

We can't all do everything.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

I know this room too well - this view too well - I am getting it all out of focus, because I can't walk through it.

Clearly the mind is always altering its focus, and bringing the world into different perspectives.

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

She was like a bird for speed, an arrow for directness.