Quotes About Focus

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Labeling our thoughts during meditation practice is a powerful support that reconnects us with the fresh, open, unbiased dimension of our mind.

we cannot be in the present and run our story lines at the same time!

instructions, in their simplest form, have three basic steps: Be fully present. Feel your heart. And engage the next moment without an agenda.

However, in this technique, because your eyes are open and because the gaze in not a tight gaze and because the whole emphasis of the practice is one of openess, even though you're mindful of the out-breath, you're not shutting out all other things that are going on.

But the instruction that the awareness is only twenty-five percent really brings home the idea that it's not a concentration practice - there's a very light touch on the berath as it goes out.

Just prepare well and know what you want to do. Give it your best, but you really don't have a clue what's going to happen.

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking," and return to the breath.

Just where you are—that's the place to start.

If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Casteneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all. That attitude leads to more appreciation and less burnout, because we do the job wholeheartedly and we care.

Distraction is married to discontent

One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Castaneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all.

La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado

Will-power is useless without a sense of direction.

Omit the non-essential.

much more focus on risk management, rather than risk measurement. Understanding how to reduce risk before the fact is much more productive than identifying it afterward.