Quotes About Focus

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?

You spend a decade thinking about the 2000 Olympics and they are nothing more than an elusive possibility, a faint light on the horizon's edge. Now they stand right in front of you. Press out, follow through, head down, stretch to the wall. Touch first or second. A missed taper would be damnation. A third place would be agony unlike any other.

Mind is everything. Muscle — pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

we don't notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished.

O, [you], with your mind far away, thinking that death will not come, Entranced by the pointless activities of this life, If you were to return empty-handed now, would not your [life's] purpose have been [utterly] confused? Recognise what it is that you truly need! It is a sacred teaching [for liberation]! So, should you not practise this divine [sacred] teaching, beginning from this very moment?

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

there's no such thing as an idle thought and that all of us are way too cavalier and tolerant of our minds' wandering.

To bring something into the physical world requires focusing not on what we see, but on what we want to see.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

Yeah, he'd been trained to be good with details, but once his dick started working, his brain generally shifted to standby.

Peg was involved in a common form of senior-year panic that caused its victims to exhibit permanent distraction and to take up residence in the library.

Much of life consists of the dead time between events. Don't fill these interstitial moments with pornography and cat videos.

Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.

Focus, your way to success." ?#?iampm?

Give, no wavelength to your direction.

You, don't hook everywhere. ?#?iampm?

Those who don't play chess may tend to think of it as a tedious game, best suited to idle eccentrics and the elderly - people with vast patience and plenty of time to waste.

time is forever frozen in a loop of the eternal present, while life away from the board comes to seem unbearably fast-paced. They therefore constantly seek to rediscover that state of grace, that nebulous yet limpid condition of dominion, that comes only from concentrating the mind on the game.