Quotes About Focus

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.

Archer These sharpshooters like to keep their distance on the battlefield and in life. Nothing makes them happier than single-mindedly taking down their target.

Volyova felt as if her brain consisted of a room full of precocious schoolchildren: individually bright, and—if only they would pool themselves—capable of shattering insights. But some of those schoolchildren were not paying attention; they were staring dreamily out of the window, ignoring her protestations to focus on the present, because they found their own obsessions more intellectually attractive than the dull curriculum she was intent on dispensing.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.

life is like ridding bicycle . to keep your balance you must keep moving

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits

If you want to live a happy life tie it to goal. Not to people or things.

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.