Quotes About Focus

10º MANDAMIENTO: COMPROMÉTETE CON LOS OBJETIVOS

The more challenging the goal, the more you must focus your life on it.

The more challenging the mission, the more your life must be focused on it. That means not only your training, but also your eating and sleeping, the support of your family and friends, and much more.

When it comes to achieving high goals, the greatest limiter you face is not the many miles you train, but rather the few inches between your ears.

I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other.

Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.

When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine.

Ever try not to think? It's like trying not to breathe—no one can do it for long.

It was impossible to have a conversation in a room with a phone. It was like having a conversation in a room with a bat hanging from the ceiling. Even if the bat was asleep, how were you supposed to think about anything else or look at anything else?

Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.

PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!

The key is to keep things simple.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13).

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" —

Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Golfers, even the best golfers, tend to think simple thoughts. It is a misconception many of us have about successful people, in all fields, from the best writers to surgeons to physicists, that they are lost in complications, pondering thoughts that would stagger our minds. At times, that's probably true, but much of what successful people think about is relentlessly simple, building blocks that lead to the complex things.

At first I didn't think I'd even be able to play—I had way too much going on in my mind—but to my profound surprise, my fingers didn't seem to care. Apparently if you wanted to rock, it didn't matter if you had explosives in the basement, or a father with a chronic problem with keeping his dick in his pants, or a crazed ex-Blackwater employee with some religious conviction for ripping your head off. Hell, it might have helped.

When you know what you want, all you really have to do is think it and feel it.

Repetitive chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is also a powerful way to bring your intentions to fruition.

The strategy of putting all your eggs in one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.