Quotes About Focus

Love is the quality of attention we pay to things

By thirty, I believe we should all focus more on feeling gratitude for the gifts we've been given. The more grateful we feel for our families, for our friends, for the good health we have, the more we will nourish those things for the future.

Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.

He who concentrates on one isolated wave of life will suffer, because that wave is unstable and will not last.

A true yogi is able to pass into and maintain the superconscious state, regardless of multitudinous distractions never absent from this earth—the buzz of insects! the pervasive glare of daylight! In the first state of samadhi (sabikalpa), the devotee shuts off all sensory testimony of the outer world. He is rewarded then by sounds and scenes of inner realms fairer than the pristine Eden. 6

Surcharge Your Will Power Through Concentration The way to become receptive is to sit quietly and concentrate your thoughts on a worthy wish until your mind and thought become completely dissolved in that idea. Then will power becomes divine — omniscient and omnipotent — and can be successfully applied toward realizing your goal.

When life force is shut off from the sensory organs, material sensations cannot reach the brain to snatch away the meditator's attention from God.

The germ of success in whatever you want to accomplish is in your will power.

Any word spoken with clear realization and deep concentration has a materialising value.

Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration

Do not while away your time in idleness. A great many people occupy themselves with inconsequential activities. Ask them what they have been doing and they will usually say, "Oh, I have been busy every minute!" But they can scarcely remember what they were so busy about!

Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time.

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, Is this necessary at this point in the book?

To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen

Distractions arise from habitual thought patterns when practice is intermittent.

It is the power to focus the consciousness on a given spot, and hold it there Attention is the first and indispensable step in all knowledge.

If all a man's faculties can be concentrated on one point, it will be like a spike; a blunt object cannot penetrate an obstacle, it has to be sharpened, and then it can easily thrust its way through anything.

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

You nearly killed him- You do dwell on details

When his management team gathers, the focus is never on what is going well; it's on the handful of problems that need to be addressed.

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

If the writer thinks about his material long enough, until it becomes a part of his mind and wakes up thinking about it- then at least when he starts to work, it will flow out as if by itself.

A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.

our hearts and minds are not engaged due to problems at home or elsewhere. The