Quotes About Focus

Most jobs can be done in less than 15 minutes. Just 15! If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes, you might be doing something wrong. So set your timer and you'll be amazed at how much progress you make before the bell goes off.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

There is time to do everything God wants me to do. There's not time to do everything. There's not time to do everything good. There's not time to do everything everyone else wants me to do. There's not even time to do everything I want to do. But, because God is God, there must be time to do everything He wants me to do.

Exchange every erupting thought for just one: the name of Jesus.

You get stronger by strengthing your mind, not your body.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

However, what lingered in my mind was that one person's dissatisfaction. We tend to notice what's wrong rather than what's right.

It's not what you do that counts, it's the quality of your attention.

What you are telling me is nothing new. You are not the only one who has trouble with wandering thoughts. Our minds are extremely unfocussed. But our will is the master of all our faculties, and it is able to rein them in and carry them to God, which is their final goal.

Though not often discussed, there is a split of sorts in the meditating world—namely, between concentration and mindfulness techniques.

Structure not only increases our chance of success, it makes us more efficient at it.

If you've ever binge-watched a season or two of a TV show on Netflix when you should be studying, or finishing an assignment, or going to sleep, you know how an appealing distraction can trigger a self-defeating choice.

El atisbo de reojo delata sin excepción al alumno que alberga alguna intención de copiarse. Los preceptores debían alcanzar esa misma destreza para obtener un sigilo igualmente implacable. No para "mirar sin ver", que es como la frase hecha define al distraído, sino al contrario, para ver sin mirar, para poder verlo todo sin que parezca estar mirando nada.

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Another day, my friend. We survive by focusing on the next thing in front of us and doing what we can, letting the rest go. Otherwise, you're fucked.

You can tell your body to do whatever you want, Miss Idina," he'd told her, his eyes closed and his legs crossed beneath him while a young Idina fidgeted in her attempt at the same position. "When you tell your mind to do what you say, and it finally obeys, this is mastery. Over anything and everything you wish.

When you want something, you make the time. Not excuses.

if papa would only quit looking at me

It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.