Quotes About Focus

A question is not a supplication, an entreaty, nor a velleity for knowledge just put out in the air; it is already an order, a command. (Beggars, the destitute, pupils, factory workers, enlisted soldiers, prisoners, and patients have no right to question; they can only entreat.?) A question commands a certain focus of attention, a selection of resources on hand, a certain type of language. It lays down a direction; it imposes a directive to think further down a certain track.

I can see why Passion and Purpose are so attracted to each other. She's fascinated by his energy and intensity, and he admires her sense of focus, how she can always find her way without making a fuss. She calms and steadies him, he makes her feel alive.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

What we think about, what we concentrate on, will always, always, be reflected on the outside.

It all comes down to your intention. When you put all of your focus on a problem you just get more of the problem. But if you put your focus on being of help, then your energy is directed toward the help instead of the problem

When you focus on what you fear—you get more of what you fear. When you focus on what you don't want—you get more of what you don't want. When you focus on attempting to control others—you attract more of being controlled. Your attention to them brings more of them, and more like them, into your life.

La mirada es una elección. El que mira decide fijarse en algo en concreto y, por consiguiente, a la fuerza elige excluir su atención del resto de su campo visual. Esa es la razón por la cual la mirada, que constituye la esencia de la vida, es, en primera instancia, un rechazo.

Enseguida se nota cuando alguien está leyendo. El que lee, el que lee de verdad, está en otra parte.

Modifier le regard : c'est ça notre grand-oeuvre.

Pour vivre, il faut être capable de ne plus mettre sur le même plan, au-dessus de soi, la maman et le plafond. Il faut refuser l'un des deux pour choisir de s'intéresser soit à la maman soit au plafond. Le seul mauvais choix est l'absence de choix.

As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal music for the job. Normally, Pannonique programmed her brain to play symphonies that have her the energy indispensable for such physical labour-Saint-Saens, Dvorak-but now that heart-rending Lied stuck in her skull and sapped her strength.

It's Easy to complain about what's going Wrong but Try to acknowledge what's going Right

The weakest point is between the legs for a goalkeeper.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Of course you think about the goalkeeper you are facing before a game. You have to prepare yourself for the game and think about the weakness of the players you are up against.

My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I've worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.