Quotes About Focus

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

I obviously love to run the ball.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

When the wings of insanity beat so near, one pays attention to a feather

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale A peaceful mind generates power. from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.

Get interested in something! Absolutely enthralled in something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we'd never get nothing done." "You mean you'd never get anything done," corrected Milo. "We don't want to get anything done," snapped another angrily; "we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help.

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air.