Quotes About Focus

Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.

I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.