Quotes About Focus

You ain't gonna stop trying to get where you going until you reach it.

They left behind a crystal wand (an arcane focus worth 10 gp), a set of fine clothes, and a small, autographed painting of a suave, dark-haired human wizard with a dove perched on his shoulder. The picture is inscribed, "Yarek-Have a magical day! Your friend, Jim.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

Barossa should focus on what it does best: full-bodied Shiraz

Rather than listen to what other people tell you, find out what is really important to you and just be concerned with that

the essence of kungfu training is improving skills and enhancing force (not merely learning elaborate techniques) — the process of which necessitates practising simple actions over and over again, many, many, many times.

than all the sandbags and dumb-bells put together.

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

in reserve for the most important thing: the present.

The gentle patter of the rain was punctuated by the scratching of pencil on paper.

In the midst of a vast field of numbers, a straight path opened before my eyes.

At first, I was conscious of wanting to please the Professor, but gradually that feeling faded and I realized it had become a battle between the problem and me.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scraps of thought refused to cohere.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.

Jika kau mengulangi berbagai latihan dengan susah payah dan mendapatkan manfaat disiplin dalam praktik serta latihan, tindakan akan ada dalam tubuh serta kakimu, bukan pikiranmu. Dengan menjaga jarak dari latihan, kau tidak akan melawannya, dan kau akan melakukan setiap teknik dengan bebas. Pada titik ini, kau tidak akan tahu di mana pikiranmu berada, dan tak ada iblis atau pun kekuatan suci yang mampu menemukannya.

It is the Mind, That is the Mind, Confusing the Mind. Do not leave the Mind, O Mind, To the Mind.

How the prince of this world presses and throngs with clamours, more or less noble and good, but all in order to keep us away from devoting all to Him.

By and byGod caught his eye.

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

When we're being mindful, we're paying attention to the present moment, deliberately and non-judgementally. When we're meditating, we're being mindful of a specific object, such as the sensation of the breath at the tip of our nostrils, for a sustained period of time.

The pursuit of perfection required rigor and discipline.