Quotes About Focus

I run. I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

There's such power in that, being someone's focus.

If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.

you keep your eye on the donut not the hole.

Discipline over ability wins every time.

People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder's performance piece. The script was great. 'When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and "bleat, bleat"?' I asked. 'I feel like "bleat, bleating," but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean?

A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

The crummy part of swimming is that while you're doing it you can't really see much: the bottom of the pool, certainly, a smudged and fleeting bit of the outside world as you turn your head to breathe. But you can't pick things out – a man's face, for example, watching from the sidelines when, for the first time in your life, you pull ahead and win.

What had we talked about and why hadn't I paid attention?

J'ai pensé que les distractions cessent d'en être quand elles deviennent obligatoires.

It's natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the "not." Charlie had a gift for ignoring.

Close' only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

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learning not to give a f*ck and not to focus on the non-essentials and the superfluous is the way forward.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

My great ambition has always prevented me from doing anything.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.