Quotes About Focus

We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.

A lesson is learned. It is easier, more efficient, to chop onions when you are only chopping onions, not conversing, checking up on the rest of the kitchen, answering the phone, flirting with the young lady scouring the coffeepot, or whatever.

Mister Sensei Essay Writer Guy opens his eyes momentarily, smiles, and says, "When you are not writing, be thoroughly not writing; when you are writing, be writing through and through.

Michel de Montaigne, a highly-educated French nobleman who retired from public duties and retreated to his family's castle around 1570 to focus on his writing, is

When we are chopping onions, we should be chopping onions only, right there, right then, at the chopping board, as if the onions, the knife, and our hands were all that existed.

I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon.

You do not realize the power of your own mind. By focusing on the reality you desire, you can create it. Your energy is scattered. Once you learn how to focus and direct it, you are capable of creating miracles. And if the power of one man's mind is that powerful, think of the power of group mind once it is harnessed. The power of the focusing of many people's minds is not only multiplied, it is squared.

We need time to lose interest in things.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw.

But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.

It was the kind of day in which you forget words and drop things and wonder what it is you came into the room to get because you are standing here for a reason and you have to tell yourself it is just a question of sooner or later before you remember because you always remember once you are here. The thing is communicated somehow.

Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

Army ants have discipline, Bill said. Don't ask me what writers have.

She wanted to stay focused, one thing following sensibly upon another. There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past

There's something about having limited horizons that makes everything right around you appear to be monumental and important, even if in reality it is relatively insignificant.

When God created the earth, He made it so that everything that was created would reproduce after its own kind. He did this for plants, animals, and leaders. As leaders, we reproduce leaders in a similar vein as ourselves, so it makes sense that Jesus would focus on the heart.

When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

A positive emotional state is ideal for creative thought, but it is not very well suited for getting things done.

The best products come from ignoring these competing voices and instead focusing on the true needs of the people who use the product.

We have long known that when people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentrating upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

A brain in a negative emotional state provides focus: precisely what is needed to maintain attention on a task and finish it.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.