Quotes About Focus

Pep's do-or-die attitude from the sidelines (constantly correcting and signalling during games, treating every match as if it were the last, intensely focused on the job, passionate and occasionally over-exuberant) as well as his off-pitch behaviour (making the team eat together, scouting rival players and teams, unheard of at the time in the third division) suggested he was a leader, ready for management. Ready to lead at any level. Any team.

he'll tell you the road to success in that particular match. He will make you see it, visualise it.

That August evening at Los Pajaritos, el mister, as coaches are known in Spain, told his players something that he has repeated several times since. 'We shouldn't lose sight of the target.' And the target wasn't to win titles, but to achieve a certain way of playing. If they stuck to their principles, titles would be the most logical consequence. Never losing sight of their goal would be one of the keys to success.

Regarding positional play, he insisted on making sure the player stayed in his corresponding area, especially when the ball was lost.

Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.

I was reorienting my focus and soon came to realize that I was really experiencing yet another start to my understanding of China.

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

Love is effortless attention.

A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.

These two, the memories of last autumn, could be addressed later—if she chose. Right now, she had a task, and she could very much use whatever payment they ended up offering.

The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.

Don't switch off. Stay engaged. Resist distraction. Concentrate. Focus. Be present. Smell the coffee. Taste the food. Listen to the speech. Keep that Latin accurate. Stop thinking about what's coming next, stop checking the mobile, and relish what's happening now. Seize the day. For all you know, it's the only one you've got. Live in the moment.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

If you're doing your best, you won't have time to worry about failure.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing. 828

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.

O talento sem disciplina é como um polvo de patins

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