Quotes About Focus

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

In my view, the key to becoming a successful NBA player is not learning the coolest highlight-reel moves. It's learning how to control your emotions and keep your mind focused on the game, how to play through pain, how to carve out your role on the team and perform it consistently, how to stay cool under pressure and maintain your equanimity after crushing losses or ecstatic wins.

As with everything else in life, the instructions remain the same, despite changing circumstances: Chop wood, carry water.

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

Jason Dill held the pencil beam steadily.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

because where we are is always the most important place.

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

May I ask a question? Without the books of symbols, how do you read it?" "I just make my mind go clear and then it's sort of like looking down into water. You got to let your eyes find the right level, because that's the only one that's in focus. Something like that," she said.

If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make themselves find that really important, they'd be safe.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.

Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

The only thing we should seek in prayer is God. When we focus on how we are doing or what we are getting out of prayer, we have taken our eyes off God and put them back on our self.

Nothing would ever have been achieved, he thought, if men had allowed themselves to be diverted by the scale of the problems faced.

Never to let your enemy read your eyes. Do not think of an attack—just do it!

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

Even in the middle of a crisis, he had to be accurate.

the only thing to do was not worry about it at all, and have the best damn time you could while you were around. Of course, being a leader helped. You were always too busy bringing in air and artillery, moving your people and shepherding your herd, to take time to focus in on yourself, on where you might be in a moment's time.

We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction;

The ego corrupts our mindset in five ways: (a) It chooses what we focus on, (b) it makes what we see all about us, (c) it concludes that all negative experiences are due to a deficiency within ourselves, (d) it magnifies the relevance of our focus, and (e) it causes us to believe that we can think our way out of a situation that is beyond our control or understand something that is unknowable.