Quotes About Focus

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

It's tough not to keep thinking of the past, but you have to look ahead. Because the stuff in front of you is where you can make a difference and help the most.

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

What you're doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.

The stakeout. The least glamorous and yet often the most valuable activity in investigations. To endure the agonizing boredom and forestall restlessness, I slowed my metabolism into near rigor mortis until I was nothing more than a pair of eyeballs fixed

Cuando se sienta tenso o confuso, recuerde que lo primero que ha de hacer para sentirse sereno y confiado es tomar el control de la respiración. Es el paso más directo, rápido y eficiente para acceder de nuevo a un estado de equilibrio.

La serenidad no surge de vivir en las circunstancias ideales como reflejan los otros cuadros con sus mares en calma y sus cielos despejados. La serenidad es la capacidad de mantener centrada tu atención, en medio de la dificultad, en aquello que para ti es una prioridad.

serenidad es la capacidad de mantener centrada tu atención, en medio de la dificultad, en aquello que para ti es una prioridad.

Al no estar la mente enfocada en el aquí y en el ahora, sino como suele decirse coloquialmente «dando vueltas por los cerros de Úbeda», no solo perdemos mucha información de lo que está ocurriendo en el presente, sino que, además, quedamos atrapados en eventos que ocurrieron en el pasado o que pueden ocurrir en el futuro, y que suelen asociarse con sentimientos de culpa o con estados de ansiedad.

haciendo un esfuerzo

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Para mirar los diarios, hay que bajar los ojos.

los distraídos suelen oxidarse

If the focus is delivering something the customer wants, you must move from primarily measuring outputs to primarily measuring outcomes.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

since she and Marcus and her mother left, she's been close to obsessed with wanting

She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

You must promise to give yourself entirely to someone or something because that's who you are. You are a genius at devoting yourself; it's what makes you happiest.

I can say that all this focus on appearance while I was on Weight Watchers kept me really busy—I filled my life with healthy busywork.

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