Quotes About Focus

but there was no way he could hold a target

Robert W. Creamer

make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

Hours spent compulsively masturbating to online pornography or pursuing potential sex partners on dating or social media sites and apps are hours not spent developing one's career, nurturing one's spouse and/or children, hanging out with friends, enjoying hobbies, and engaging in various other necessary forms of self-care.

the problems that meditation can help you overcome often make it hard to meditate in the first place.

meditation as a process that takes a conscious mind that gets to do a little nudging and turns it into something that can do a lot of

clearest vision possible.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

nadie, y menos en literatura, es capaz de no parpadear durante un tiempo prolongado

Besides Archimboldi, there was one thing Morini, Pelletier, and Espinoza had in common. All three had iron wills. Actually, they had one other thing in common, but we'll get to that later.

A spiritual perspective at midlife helps us to focus on what's really important in terms of feeling more connected to the world in a meaningful purposeful way.

Being in the moment of creating produces a meditative space where you can just lose yourself.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time.

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about.

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

It is a heady thing to be suddenly proclaimed the center of someone's world

Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.

One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.