Quotes About Focus

once John D. Rockefeller, Sr., set his mind to something, he brought awesome powers of concentration to bear.

Nothing could keep him from his morning game.

True to this policy, Rockefeller tried to extricate himself from the intricate web of administrative details and dedicate more of his time to broad policy decisions.

Life was a serious business to me when I was young.

Waste neither time nor money" was his favorite motto.

Do this one thing.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa. Y es verdad que perdemos el tiempo preocupándonos por nimiedades, que nos aturdimos y nos empecinamos tontamente, que tendemos a pensar que la auténtica vida está por llegar.

Obsesión, perfeccionismo y un nivel elevado de energía».

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

Sessizce, Cambazlar bir kez ipin üzerinde dengede durdular m?, kalabal?k yaln?zca onlar?n düÅŸmelerini bekler, dedi.

If you want to know where your heart is, follow your mind when it wanders.

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything in it...

If you can dream and not make dreams your master

How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when he is eternally pestered by women? There was that girl at the Akrola by the Ford; and there was the scullion's wife behind the dovecote -- not counting the others -- and now comes this one! When I was a child it was well enough, but now I am a man and they will not regard me as a man. Walnuts indeed! Ho! Ho! It is almonds in the Plains!

Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going?

He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.

Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

This is trouble with you. You think you want, you don't think you want–always back and forth. Me, when I want, it is with whole heart. I look at wanted thing with eyes straight on. But you! Neither here nor there. Your looking always crooked, from side of eye. It has no power to hold. So wanted thing, it slip away from you.

There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focused but vast, and time felt like a limpid pool, ringed by sunlit ferns. An underground spring fed the pool from deep below, creating a gentle current of words that bubbled up, while on the surface, breezes shimmered and played.