Quotes About Focus

At one extreme...the hours seemed to aggregate and sell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day. At the other extreme when her attention was disengaged and fractured she experienced time at its most granular wherein moments hung around like particles diffused and suspended and standing in water. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focussed but vast and time felt like a limpid pool ringed by sunlit ferns.

Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention?

Jiko also says that to do zazen is to enter time completely.

Time interacts with attention in funny ways. At one extreme, when Ruth was gripped by the compulsive mania and hyperfocus of an Internet search, the hours seemed to aggregate and swell like a wave, swallowing huge chunks of her day. At the other extreme, when her attention was disengaged and fractured, she experienced time at its most granular, wherein moments hung around like particles, diffused and suspended in standing water.

noise-canceling headphones

Time interacts with attention in funny ways.

she approached her memoir with a renewed sense of resolve. A rapprochement was what was needed. An unfinished book, left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will, and ruthless determination to tame it again. She kicked the cat off her chair

And I still believe, to the core of my being, that when you pay attention, cooking becomes a kind of meditation.

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen.

Find something that, when you're doing it, makes you feel like you don't have anywhere to go. If you don't find it, you'll end up having to go somewhere you don't want to.

Nunca me verás a mí mirar ni a derecha ni a izquierda por causa de un augurio.

It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.

And one thing the author must not forget: his purpose.

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

it is not worth while to remember that past which cannot become a present.

Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly.

dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I'm fairly sure that was the wrong decision.

They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In

But it looked at Teal'c

Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.

O, the conflicting selves jostling and joggling within these bags of skin. No wonder we are unable to remain focused on anything for very long; no wonder we invent remote-control channel-hopping devices. If we turned these instruments upon ourselves we'd discover more channels than a cable or satellite mogul ever dreamed of...

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. —Interview on Bravo Channel, Feb. 14, 1991

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.