Quotes About Focus

If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else.

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

The only way forward is to never look back.

You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.

Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.

our experience is what we attend to

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.

Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

One step at a time is good walking.

Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills.

When you say three things, you say nothing.

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

weaknesses—the tendency to get lost in analysis.

Solutions-focused therapists learn to focus their patients on the first hints of the miracle—"What's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think the problem was gone"—because they want to avoid answers that are overly grand and unattainable:

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. Just look for a strong beginning and a strong ending and get moving.

Journalists obsess about their leads. Don Wycliff, a winner of prizes for editorial writing, says, "I've always been a believer that if I've got two hours in which to write a story, the best investment I can make is to spend the first hour and forty-five minutes of it getting a good lead, because after that everything will come easily.