Quotes About Focus

These are the Disciplines that can change everything!

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

But both of us had been radicalized by parenthood. Having children had brought into horribly lurid focus the predatory face of contemporary capitalism.

the biggest driver of project success rates, it seems, is the clarity of strategic focus before any ideas are developed.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

When you play each point as it comes, or play each delivery on its own merits, you are doing just that: playing. But when the value of each point or delivery becomes instrumental, what you are doing is work.

On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

You choke when your focus switches from the individual point you are playing or delivery you are facing and start worrying about your situation in the wider context of the game — or, indeed, how you fared on previous points or even in previous games.

antidote to choking or the yips is always the same: focus on this moment, this point, this delivery and nothing else.

Bad things need to be addressed, but good things do not. That is why consciousness will tend to focus on the bad.

The art of the deletion: streamlining your prose, keeping it focused and true to the story's narrative pace without denuding it.

Guard your writing time--zealously. It's precious, even if it's only one or two hours a day.

Sometimes you become so focused on protecting people from danger that you become the danger.

Most of us find it easy to knock things. We always know what we don't like, and we tend to highlight problems and issues rather than build on the elements that we do like.

a moment in the past, like a bone in the throat, that needed his attention.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I swam my brains out.

The largest problem is that we are so focused on what we deem the bigger temptations, that we are doing nothing at all about our response to the smaller ones. And it is these smaller temptations that eventually become devastating.

I pursued Christian success instead of pursuing Christ.

The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.