Quotes About Focus

Hitler was frank about the need to focus all energy on one goal, on attacking a single enemy to avoid fragmentation and disunity. 'The art of all great popular leaders,' he proclaimed, 'consisted at all times in concentrating the attention of the masses on a single enemy.

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

There are too many books in the world.

John Rebus ~ he tried to walk through the isles (of the book shop) without focusing. If he focused he would become interested and if he became interested he would buy. He already had over fifty unread books at home, piled next to his bed

Only a fool trips on what is behind them.

When I was in the game, I had this vision of myself

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

Never assume that any activity is anything more than attention-getting until you have excluded this element.

El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real.

Si buscas pequeñas cosas que hacer, y las haces bien, grandes cosas te buscarán y exigirán que las realices.

Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo...nunca debe acabar de esta manera.

No tiene propósito alguno martillar hierro frío.

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.

When you arrive at the sea, you do not talk of the tributary. (Hakim Sanai, The Walled Garden of Truth)

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

It is very important what not to do.

Nadie renuncia a algo si no es por algo mejor. Más que luchar contra tus limitaciones, concéntrate en tus habilidades, más que luchar contra el mal, concéntrate en el bien. La felicidad es lo que no tienes, o la revalorización de lo que tienes.