Quotes About Focus

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

David's charm, which he'd learned to focus with dazzling effectiveness. He'd take words out of his companion's sentences and repeat them, as if they had crystallized thoughts in his own mind; when bumping into someone again, he'd act as if he'd been barely able to function in the intervening minutes. Sometimes, talking to him, the objects of his attention would experience that giddy, tingly feeling you get when you're in love.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

What we need, we, is fixedness intense, Unequalled effort, strife that shall not cease

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

The ART of energy management Awareness, Reward and Training.

From a corner shop to an office block and every building in between. These are the areas we need to focus energy management on

A useful guideline is to limit to three the numbers in a sentence—three seems to be all the reader's brain can

Writers sometimes don't realize that an inherently dramatic tale is made even more dramatic through focus, purpose, compression, and underwriting. They often overwrite the dramatic story, which paradoxically drains it of its strength.

His eyes cut sideways at me in the mirror, and my pulse quickened. It was something to have his attention, even briefly. Like a bright light passing my way before moving on.

We were involved for nearly five years. Occasionally I would catch a glimpse of what I was doing and bolt away from him, my knapsack stuffed with the tattered draft of my first novel, meaning to finally get serious. But he quickly raced after me, again and again, and the same old chaos resumed.

After you have demonstrated a practical-life exercise, and once your child has begun to use it with concentration, you must take care not to interrupt him.

by rushing about with our children without giving thought to their needs for developing focus or, equally damaging, by allowing them to become mesmerized in front of a TV or VCR, we destroy both their conscious attention and the development of the will. Parents

If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

Solve a problem that can be solved, don't worry the ones you can't do anything with, girl.

As she worked, her face was soft, her gaze blinkless, her body outwardly relaxed, nearly motionless. But inside her head there was a relentless noise, and to shut it out she started counting her records and then counting sheep. One sheep, two sheep. three sheep ... two hundred and fifty sheep think of nothing but sheep. Calm, she thought, calm.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. [...] The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Tensing your abs will amplify the intensity of the contraction of any muscle in your body.

A typical mistake is setting the kettlebell down sloppily, with a rounded back and the weight on the toes, following a hard (and often perfect) set of swings or snatches. Don't! Mentally stay with the set until the kettlebell is safely parked. Lower the kettlebell in a way you would if you were planning to do another rep. Then let go, and only then relax.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.