Quotes About Focus

Presence is more than just being there.

I've found that sitting in silence and focusing the mind is the most meaningful and effective way to incubate intents, because it provides access to a deeper well of understanding, insight, and awareness. To

Her mind cleared slightly, but she still didn't seem to be quite all there.

I continued to find it much easier to assimilate knowledge within the structured military environment than at college, for at training sites such as Mare Island, outside influences were kept to a minimum.  All I had to do was make my bunk in the morning, show up at the appointed classrooms, and focus on the subject at hand.  Others took care of the daily routine of life while we hit the books.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.

I am ready to make plenty of sacrifices to reach my goals, and no one's going to stop me.

Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.

For example, in treating patients, I find that it is typically useless to concentrate a lot on why a patient is in trouble; that tends to be academic masturbation and can go on for years with no beneficial results.

Y ella no tiene frío? —No, no se acuerda del frío, está como en otro mundo, ensimismada dibujando a la pantera. —Si está ensimismada no está en otro mundo. Ésa es una contradicción. —Sí, es cierto, ella está ensimismada, metida en el mundo que tiene adentro de ella misma, y que apenas si lo está empezando a descubrir.

Everybody's got a unique situation," he said. "Everybody's got things in their life that they don't necessarily want to be going through or don't enjoy or don't like. But, man, we gotta stay strong, stay focused. And, if it knocks you down, get back up. Brush the dust off and keep going. 'Cuz you know, life is like that. It's great. It's wonderful. It's a blessing. It's a gift. I mean, you only live it once.

La fuerza no está en tu cuerpo, sino en tu mente.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference. Play

Don't ever let the competition make you angry. You must have clarity of mind to make your own decisions—not the ones that your competitors want you to make.

There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

All it takes is all you got.

Henri Nouwen once told the story of a research professor who was always complaining about interruptions in his work, until one day he came to the realization that interruptions were his work.

St. Teresa of Ávila writes: "The devil gives us great desires so that we will avoid setting ourselves to the task at hand, serving our Lord in possible things, and instead be content with having desired the impossible.

Tess, you need to forget what you don't remember and focus on what you do. You guys had, like, the epic summer. You'll never forget it. Hell, I won't forget it and I was just a jealous bystander.

The important thing is to make a decision," he said. "Make what decision?" "One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.

You only need two or three details to set the scene. More than that and you can lose the reader's interest.

On ne peut pas tout vivre, alors l'important est de vivre l'essentiel, et chacun de nous a "son essentiel".