Quotes About Focus

Focusing on the breath does not mean you should think about your breathing!

In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.

A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.

People that worry about where they think they're going next generally don't end up where they think they're going. I just worry about what I'm doing now and try to make it good. When you've got too much of a master plan, it's going to fail.

The enemy is noise. The goal is clarity.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.

Il primo minuto della giornata lavorativa ci ricorda tutti gli altri minuti di cui è fatto il giorno, e non è mai bene pensare ai minuti come entità singole.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.

Keep your focus and theirs not on checking tasks off of lists, but on finding root causes. Hold them accountable for personal behavior; don't let them indulge in excuses or blame the system. Show them how taking ownership of their work and taking ownership of their life are exactly the same thing.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Dormir es distraerse del universo, y la distracción es difícil para quien sabe que lo persiguen con espadas desnudas.

The soul of leisure, it can be said, lies in "celebration". Celebration is the point at which the three elements of leisure come to a focus: relaxation, effortlessness, and superiority of "active leisure" to all functions.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

Half, Not Half-Assed