Quotes About Focus

By taking explicit notice of breathing patterns, listening with intention to your heartbeat, or reciting a phrase in your mind, infinite possibilities present themselves.

Para notar algo hay que ignorar todo lo demás. Así es como lo no circunscrito se vuelve circunscrito. Cuando noto algo, ignoro todo aquello que lo rodea pero que contribuye a su existencia y, por lo tanto, forma parte de él.

Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. Intention, on the other hand, triggers transformation of energy and information. Intention organizes its own fulfillment.

One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention.

You don't give up the intention; and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Intention combined with detachment leads to life-centered, present-moment awareness. And when action is performed in present-moment awareness, it is most effective.

Another example: When you watch a young child who is playing with complete focus and yet totally carefree, it's hard not to feel a tug. Doesn't the child's innocence seem palpable at that moment? Can't you feel in yourself—or yearn to feel—the same delight in play? Doesn't the child's tiny body seem as fragile as a soap bubble and yet bursting with life itself, something immense, eternal, never to be defeated?

On the direct path you constantly reinforce your purpose, which keeps the distractions at bay.

A simple shift of attention is all you need.

A self check in is a way to know and manage awareness, attention and Intention.

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goal clearly in sight.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.