Quotes About Focus

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Be rigorously mindful of the awareness of touch. We should be rigorously, ardently, intensively mindful. Do not rest when tired, scratch when itched, nor shift when cramped. We should keep our bodies and minds absolutely still and strive till the end. The uncomfortable truly is the norm; the comfortable will set us adrift on the current of illusion.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Escape from delusion is not achieved through reflective, considerate, relaxed effort. It is achieved only through the most powerful and sustained thrust of all the physical and mental capabilities at the meditator's command. Sunlun calls for just this.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Samadhi doesn't just come of itself; it takes practice.

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Bring yourself back to the point quite gently. And even if you do nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back a thousand times, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

you must be present to win.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

To start, meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say, "Stay." Does the puppy listen? It gets up and runs away. You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay." And the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and pees in the corner or makes some other mess.

Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way, is at the heart of meditation. After

What you don't have to think about can't really get to you.

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.

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He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety." - Jack Nicklaus

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