Quotes About Focus

For one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. The brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

the problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Impatience, not fear, is the mind-killer.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.

The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.

A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant

I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention to subjects they profess to find repugnant

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A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

Somehow when the heart becomes single, the rest will follow.

Brother, even when you're on the track you aren't running on the track, don't you know that yet?

No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

He's got _go_, anyhow.' Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it?

Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice.