Quotes About Focus

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.

Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere.

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals. Holly said. Not me! said Orion cheerily, I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.

Now I can do the bolts, she slurred. I've been trying to focus enough magic all week. The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur! screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.

Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.

Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

Calm, Butler told himself. Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

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Passion is the enemy of efficiency.

Pull yourself together. You are a professional . She didn't feel very professional. She felt like a girl out of her depth. Your body is playing tricks on your mind. Ignore it .

Strange that mud people were more concerned about the past than the present.

Shut up, idiot. I'm counting bongs.

She'd never been able to concentrate on one thing in her entire life. Maybe that was it. Life wasn't here to distract her now.

No te dejes apartar de tu deber por cualquier reflexión vana que de ti pueda hacer el mundo necio, porque en tu poder no están sus censuras, y, por consiguiente, no deben importarte nada

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

You become what you give your attention to.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

There is a time and place for diversion and amusements, but you should never allow them to override your true purposes.

If you pin your hopes on things outside your control, taking upon yourself things which rightfully belong to others, you are liable to stumble, fall, suffer, and blame both gods and men. But if you focus your attention only on what is truly your own concern, and leave to others what concerns them, then you will be in charge of your interior life. No one will be able to harm or hinder you. You will blame no one, and have no enemies.