Quotes About Focus

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on horseback.

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

did not,' said Stan. 'I never said he lied. I told him it was an unfortunate reality of the game. I told him he would sometimes face kids who made bad calls and that he shouldn't focus on his opponent but on his own game.

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It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

Troy couldn't make himself care or focus. The market was quiet, but not that quiet. His heart wasn't in it. He'd made only one trade in the last two hours. That was a signal he should stop for the day, according to his own rules, and rule number one was Follow Your Own Rules.

Move on. Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

concentration drifted as Alain continued to talk. She watched the closed

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.

She was an obsessive sort of woman, really.

He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.

Monkey brain refers to the way your mind swings from thought to thought, like a monkey swinging from branch to branch.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now. She had

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh…

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means--and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one--to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.

When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.