Quotes About Focus

One of the things I always tell the police and families is that while everything is possible, not all things are probable. You can't waste a lot of investigative effort on an extremely unlikely scenario; you have to stay with what makes sense.

The evidence should guide you to a theory; you should not be allowing the theory to guide the evidence upon which you focus.

The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.

Confused communication and unity of purpose cannot live together.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

God's love is God's attention.

She coached every day like it was the national championship game. Every practice was coached like that. It was never a letup. I can't ever remember a day where she was tired, ever. —MICKIE DEMOSS

Walt was a dreamer, but one who pursued his goals with clarity and an almost ferocious intensity." JACK KINNEY DISNEY ANIMATOR

Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

Beauclaire focused his attention, and I felt his magic send shivers of ice along my arms.

Don't you have something more important to do?" I asked him, flipping on the light on. "Like ruling the world or something" -Mercy

I see." Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. "And the key would be ... ?" "Gone," he said. "Lost years ago. Not that it matters none. I once seen His Grace kick in a brick wall 'cause he was in a mood for what lay on the other side.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

If you find that you are a worrier, you might want to consider that the more you worry about each specific thing, the more likely you'll bring it into reality.

thousand details aligned in his head—things he'd see to, people he'd call, decisions he'd make—to

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

Dahmer was a sensitive, shy, and immature young man. He lacked motivation, passion, and ambition—that perhaps can be blamed in part on his habitual drinking problem. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that he attempted to equip himself for a more productive life, and he always allowed alcohol to take over and ruin any progress he did make. Eventually, his crimes, once embarked upon, would become the focus of his entire world.

Switching from task to task is a large mental burden because you are essentially stopping and starting from zero numerous times throughout the day. It takes a lot of energy to switch from task to task, and there are usually a few wasted minutes just regaining your bearings and figuring out the status of the task you were working on. Of course, these kinds of interruptions only lead to achieving just a portion of what you can and want to.

One of the biggest weapons you have against procrastination is its natural enemy: making tasks almost impossible to skip over in the present moment. We'll cover that in more detail later.

Finally, one great benefit of mastering "no" is that you give yourself so much more time and energy to pursue what you really care about, i.e. all those things you can say a hearty and resounding yes to!