Quotes About Focus

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

It seemed like the only way to keep breathing was to focus on the here and now, moment by moment, keeping my mind frozen cold to anything else.

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

If you're going to do it, do it.

But even if that were true, I was working hard. I didn't know how not to.

Fac quod faciendum est,' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

Most people hear an airplane in the sky and think, 'There's an airplane,' and go back to what they were doing. A few folks look around for the airplane, try to figure out what kind of plane it is, and watch it from the time they spot it to the time it disappears on the horizon, maybe after that. Those kids are the ones who will be pilots." He pointed at me. "I knew that about you. I've just been waiting for you to show up.

Feel the chain saw. Be the chain saw.

And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.

and it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking

I managed to memorize half of "The Eve of St. Agnes," and would mutter stanzas to myself when I was bored, alone, or at aerobics class.

Being only where you were was incomplete, but being not at all where you were (because you were getting upset by the conversation you were having on your cell phone) was flat-out hazardous. That's when you walked in front of cars.

Being observed felt like an action, the only one worth taking.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about NOT thinking about somebody (...).

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

The more complicated a person's strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

Now, if that's everything, I have an empire to build and a girl to chase.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Some puzzles make more sense at two hundred miles an hour.

Zodra Alisa eenmaal een onderwerp had aangesneden, kreeg je haar ongeveer net zo makkelijk van haar spoor als een hogesnelheidstrein.

There's nothing like speed for getting out of your own head—and out of your own way.

Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes, you need them to break the loop.

Pay no attention to this sledgehammer!