Quotes About Focus

For whatever the reason being to be without that special someone, your only focus, the one that you truly loved and still love is to alter your life forever. No matter what, there's no getting away from it because 'it' is the person you loved and still love and think of all the time no matter what. It doesn't matter how many new people come into your life the gap will never close for that special someone, the one who was your only focus.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.

For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know the cape of grace falling softly about the shoulders as we focus on the task at hand whether it be to listen or to leave or to learn.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

When you finally find what truely matters to you in life! The rest don't matter.

If you focus on the good things about them you'll miss them, but if you focus on the bad things you'll remember why you shouldn't be with them.

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening

Part of being good with a rifle is knowing what I'm shooting at. Did you think I'd just start unloading bullets into the underbrush?

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

My mind is so serene but concentrated and I am watching it like a cat a mouse. I

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a rain it certainly is not idle.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

That was the problem with memory, the process of focusing on one thing necessarily required the exclusion of something else and sometimes the something else was the most important part.

The Romans did not concern themselves with the number of their enemies; they only asked, 'Where are they?

keep the constraints of the problem visible

A starving man won't notice a dirty plate.

4. PERCEPTIVENESS: Send them to their room to get dressed and they'll never make it. Something along the way—perhaps a commercial on the television—will catch their attention as they walk by and they'll forget about getting dressed. It can take ten minutes to get them from the house to the car. They notice everything—the latest oil spill, the white feather in the bird's nest, and the dew in the spider web. They're often accused of not listening.