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Quotes About Focus

Fighting the mind does not work. What works best is learning to focus it.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Concentration is the act of focusing one's attention. As the mind is allowed to focus on a single object, it stills. As the mind is kept in the present, it becomes calm. Concentration means keeping the mind now and here. Concentration is the supreme art because no art can be achieved without it, while with it, anything can be achieved.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
But the basic strategy for increasing feel is consciously to switch games from a game of results to one of awareness. Usually, it is overconcern with results that leads to overcontrol and decreased feel, so change your goal to increasing awareness. Pick any awareness technique and increase your focus on whatever feel is there. Don't judge it as good or bad; merely observe it. Feel will pick up immediately, and improved results will follow as a matter of course.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
if one writes one can do nothing else.
~ W.B. Yeats
Im not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.
~ Sania Mirza
You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.
~ John Brodie
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
~ Emanuel Lasker
Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.
~ Gaspar Noe
You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.
~ Nikolay Davydenko
Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.
~ Richard Koch
You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.
~ Billy Packer
Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.
~ Morton Blackwell
Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.
~ Erick Green
You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.
~ Michael Fassbender
In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.
~ Natalie Goldberg
When purchasing gifts becomes the focal point of the season, we lose focus on what's truly important.
~ Unknown
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
~ Richard Moss
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.
~ Francis Chan
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
~ Isaiah Berlin
A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
~ Sam Altman
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
~ Edwin Newman
Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.
~ Unknown