Quotes About Focus

I don't need men like Ross on my side. I just need them to get out of my way. (Mitch Rapp)

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist; but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

If you allow the things of this world to dominate your thinking, you will be spiritually unfruitful.

I'll start with the small things

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

Great things are not something accidental, they must be distinctly willed.

estou certo que a vontade de trabalhar me devorará e me tornará insensível a todo o resto, e de bom humor.

Pois bem, este é o meu forte, fazer um homem toscamente numa única sessão.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.

Fill the brain with high thoughts and highest ideals place them day and night before you and out of that will come great work

That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else.

Take up one idea Make that one idea your life Think of it Dream of it Live on that idea Let the brain, muscles, nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it, think of it, and live on that alone. Let the brain, the muscles, the nerves and indeed every part of your body be full of that idea, to the exclusion of every other idea. That indeed is the way to success, and that is how the great spiritual giants are produced.

To turn the mind inside, stop it from going outside, and then to concentrate all its powers, and throw them upon the mind itself, in order that it may know its own nature, so that it will analyse itself, as it were, is indeed very hard work. Yet that is the only way to anything like a scientific approach towards the subject. Now

If the mind is intensely eager everything can be accomplished Mountains can be crumbled into atoms

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?