Quotes About Focus

We live in an age of distraction, of overwhelming amounts of conflicting information and competing priorities. And these complications can easily derail our progress on the bridge of belief. Belief requires focus. It demands that we follow the lead of our feeling mind, of our intuition and assumptions. Distractions and difficulties turn on our thinking mind, which undermines belief by overriding our instincts.

ignore all of that doubt-inducing information and be driven by curiosity and passion.

But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives. Psychologists

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Todos los integrantes del reparto que he conocido parecen tomar muy en serio su trabajo.

The writer overthinks by necessity, collecting and complicating small details, while the tournament golfer needs to be simple, myopic, fixated on one detail at a time.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.

Do less, to do more, to earn more.

Very successful companies have never struck me as particularly busy; in fact, they are, as a group, rather laid-back. Energy is evident in the workplace, but it's not the energy tinged with fear that comes from being slightly behind on everything.

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

I know sometimes in the off-season I have to motivate myself to get on the ice because I know there's so long until the competitions begin again.

The best players in this game are consistent, year in and year out. That's what I'm trying to do on defense. It's harder to do on offense, but I'm trying my best to do that, too.

I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.

If I can defend, I find that my offense just comes to me.

Sometimes I feel like my defense is so elite that sometimes my offense gets put on the backburner.

I was letting the lack of touches on offense really affect my defense.