Quotes About Focus

Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

Dream with both eyes open, both ears listening, and both hands working.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

Over preparing for your competition is better than under-preparing.

The farther back you pull a bow the farther forward you can shoot an arrow.

he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Leaders create clarity from confusion.

Speakership is the ultimate personal development vehicle, and the confidence and focus that comes from being the master of your internal state is possibly its greatest reward.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

The ultimate mark of skillful running is the ability to run with minimal mental effort.

It was a decision she would not regret, performing well enough right out of the gate that no further persuasion was required to convince Jamie to drop other sports and focus exclusively on running for the next three years.

Si vas a hacer trampa, hazla con todas tus fuerzas

We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.

That is the whole thing with the future. You don't know. At some point you have to accept that you don't know. You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you are on.

Do not watch TV aimlessly. Do not go on social media aimlessly. Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it. Don't value TV less. Value it more. Then you will watch it less. Unchecked distractions will lead you to distraction.

Aim not to get more stuff done. Aim to have less stuff to do. Be a work minimalist. Minimalism is about doing more with less. So much of working life seems to be about doing less with more. Activity isn't always the same as achievement.

Life can sometimes feel like an overproduced song, with a cacophony of a hundred instruments playing all at once. Sometimes the song sounds better stripped back to just a guitar and a voice. Sometimes, when a song has too much happening, it's hard to hear the song at all.

When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.

You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you're on

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

Don't worry about things you can't control.

Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit, the ability to keep your head down, swimming in your lane, without looking around, worrying who might overtake you . .