Quotes About Focus

Hacía todo lo posible para no pensar en eso. Solo un necio se preocupa por lo que no puede controlar.

De qué sirve la atención? Es más, ¿de qué sirve observar? La gente siempre está observando cosas. Lo que debería hacer es ver. Yo veo las cosas que miro. Soy el que ve.

My Alar is like the ocean in a storm.

And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart...

Qué siente uno cuando sabe adónde va?

Hermes was always moving, even when he stood still. Think of him as a god with ADHD on a double espresso in a room full of shiny objects. Some

The information processing model suggests that there is a limit to the amount of focused mental activity we can engage in at one time.

learners sometimes fail to notice certain language forms—grammatical morphemes, vocabulary words, syntactic patterns, pragmatic features—when their focus is on understanding meaning.

We all know that one of the most successful ways to stop pain and presence is to drink or use other drugs. The reason that drunks are dangerous and boring is that they are not there with you, but are lost in another world. Driving when drunk is destructive because you are not present to the road and the traffic around you. You are not in a place of survival and your inability to survive could harm others.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.

We would work side by side for hours, in a state of mutual concentration.

I revisit my book piles. Trying not to be sidetracked or lured into another dimension.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

In questi soffocati processi decisionali, io dimostravo una soglia d'attenzione pari a quella di un adolescente drogato.

How could I have nothing to read? Perhaps it wasn't a lack of a book but a lack of obsession.

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there.

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive.

Si mantienes los ojos abiertos, siempre estarás perdido

Spartan surroundings, yes, but surroundings have never been of any importance as far as your work is concerned, since the only space you occupy when you write your books is the page in front of your nose,

I can't remember everything we talked about, but the beginning of that conversation is a lot clearer to me than the end. By the time we came to the last half hour or forty-five minutes, there was so much bourbon in my system that I was actually seeing double. This had never happened to me before, and I had no idea how to bring the world back into focus.

Microdosing involves consuming sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics – most commonly LSD and psilocybin – in a fixed protocol, like two times per week. Unlike "macro-dosing," microdosing is intended to integrate your psychedelic consumption into your daily routine to boost creativity, improve energy, increase mental focus, and enjoy better interpersonal relations.

was it Martin Luther who told of a time when he was focused intently on the person and work of Christ? The Holy Spirit was there as if in the form of a dove, gently alight on his shoulder, and when Luther turned his attention to the Spirit and away from Christ, the dove flew away. This story may go too far in the other direction, but I believe it contains at least a modest lesson