Quotes About Focus

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

What occupied his full mind was time itself; time passing: he was concentrating

We haven't the time to take our time.

IL était comme un de ces voyageurs qui s'attardent dans les auberges en oubliant que le but du voyage n'est pas l'auberge

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! he exclaimed. The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.

You must learn to wait properly... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension

The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background.

the preparations for working put him simultaneously in the right frame of mind for creating... that collectedness and presence of mind...the right frame of mind for the artist is only reached when the preparing and the creating, the technical and the artistic, the material and the spiritual, the project and the object, flow together without a break.

archery is still a matter of life and death to the extent that it is a contest of the archer with himself;

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach...but you've got to make them fly in formation.

Beth was always warm and interested in what you were saying. She made you feel like you were the only person in the world she cared about.

Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

The happiest people don't bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

WHAT THE MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE. YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST OF THE TIME.

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

You only see what you're paying attention to. You're likely to trail bear tracks all the way back to the bear.

While they're attention was on the front of the store,

Get the motherfucker. Stay the hell away from him, but go get him. It's what you do now. And if