Quotes About Focus

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

A meditative state can be attained through measured, rhythmic breathing.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin.

SIT DOWN WITH THE plan to write something you have always wanted to write but have never managed to get around to. This time, though, you are not timing yourself. You are sitting down with the determination to write it through, even if it takes all afternoon or night. Relax and ease into it. Promise yourself you'll burn through, put the real stuff down, and not get in your own way.

THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Breathing for Warriors,

It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.

in the picture by following the arrows: Next move your eyes from 1 to 4 and

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place." He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.

You need discipline most, when it's hardest to muster.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.

I have a tendency to over-focus on the task in hand, with an exclusivity that is borderline autistic.

If you're careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.

The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.

Our marvelous electronic devices can seduce us into believing we are hard at work, but we are merely sending and receiving insignificant messages, while the real work goes undone, day after day, week after week, year after year. Real thinking and grappling hurt like hell. That's why so many people avoid it like a root canal.