Quotes About Focus

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Why should he worry himself about this woman? And why should he worry about anything else as long as he had this woman?

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

Prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, sia nello scatto che durante la selezione, è un imperativo, seppur inumano!

by trying to become "no-thought and no-thinking," we create the idea of "no-thought and no-thinking." This is one example of the wrong direction of zazen.

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.

mosquito pupils." I do not know the exact meaning of the term, but it seems to mean those people who practice their arts only during the season when mosquitoes are plentiful.

kufu means, as I have already explained, being without any suki (opening or flaw in terms of swordsmanship) or yudan (carelessness) and to become the thing itself.

Just as in the phrase jyo-e enmyo (full and clear perception in the wisdom of concentration), jyo (concentration) necessarily gives birth to e (wisdom) and e (wisdom) must be based on jyo (concentration).

shikan means that the sitter must be totally integrated with sitting itself and sit in a commanding manner.

It is especially desirable to let the concentrated state of mind, samadhi, operate in our everyday activities.

Talking, laughing, quarreling, and moving the limbs should all be integrated into the one and the same samadhi.

At first the power of concentration nurtured during sitting for thirty minutes may be lost in an instant as soon as we stop sitting. But later we will be able to retain it for five or ten minutes by means of hoben and kufu.

Therefore, kufu alludes to the earnest way each artisan applies himself to the art of his own choice.

it is important to take care to adjust our breathing to our koan as we inhale and exhale properly, saying to ourselves, "Mu." This method is what is called "nentei.

In the Jiki-shinkage-ryu (the Straight-Mind-Shadow school of swordsmanship) there is a basic set of movements called Hojo which is indeed the most magnificent I have ever known. It is accompanied by deep breathing marked by the sound "Ah" when inhaling and "Um" when exhaling.

Master Harada Sogaku writes, "For beginners it is adequate to sit for about thirty minutes at a time.

True "no-thought, no-mind" zazen is just one thing—to have a dauntless mind.