Quotes About Focus

Enlightenment is removing all distractions

Negative thinking is praying for what we don't want

The more we focus on a problem, the more of a problem it becomes

The secret to reality, is stillness of body and mind. Mental clarity is like a pond. Still the pond. Let everything settle. Vision then becomes crystal clear. When we still the body. When we still the mind. When we let all thoughts and emotions settle. When we remove all distractions. Only then, we clearly see reality as it is.

Every sermon should have a theme, and that theme should be the theme of the portion of Scripture on which it is based.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it, and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn't it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good, and then celebrate it with others?

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course

baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course...

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

The most important thing in my career out of the 23 years I played is I never struck out 100 times. Getting the base hits was the greatest thrill of my life.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons ' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him- that he was put on this earth to do something extraordinary with his special qualities, to "let the legend grow" But those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus and stay calm under stress, also included selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness, and cheapness." (132)

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.