Quotes About Focus

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

Always be aware of what you are doing.

When in doubt, it always pays to reduce scope.

Decision fatigue depletes one's willpower.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

The science of replacement says that in order for us to be better people, our goals should be to replace our worst habits and focus our attention in other places.

You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.

doing an excellent job of ignoring

Did you doze off there?" He shook my hand. "Uh, no. I was just tryin' to rub somethin' off the back of my eyelid.

You stay calm and make it happen.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Think deliberately. Use this remarkable gift of consciousness to direct your thoughts rather than being pushed around by reality.

Focus is when attention is centered in the meditative state. Then mind wandering begins. We become aware that the mind is wandering, then shift ourselves back into focus. Seeing meditation as this four-part cycle, rather than as a single ideal state, gives us a more realistic picture of what to expect in our meditation sessions.

Do your work. Not just your work, do a little more, but that little is worth more than all the rest. And if you suffer, as you must, and if you doubt, as you must, do your work. Put your heart into it, and the sky will clear. Then out of your doubt and suffering will be born the supreme joy of life.

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

Glittering generalities are designed to blind you from the dull Devil in the details

Karate is like hand sanitizer. It needs...flow.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Either 100 percent commitment, totally unwavering devotion, or nothing at all.

Though our approach to running may have seemed [unconventional], we still took winning seriously

All racers are runners, but not all runners are racers.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.