Quotes About Focus

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

In the beginning, our one-pointed focus on our goal of personal freedom is necessary; however, if carried to extremes, it can also lead to a kind of narrow-mindedness and sense of claustrophobia.

For any kind of mindfulness training to work for you, you have to be present in your life. That includes being present—mind and body—when your emotions are stirring things up. That's when you want to be clear about your thoughts, and clear about what you see, hear, and feel. That's when mindfulness really becomes your greatest friend.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

He ended up feeling my boob for the whole movie! He ate popcorn with his left hand and got lucky with his right. It started to feel kind of lopsided, for the right one to get literally an hour and a half's worth of attention and the left one to be all on its lonesome. I barely knew what the movie was about, because I was thinking about my boob the whole time.

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

That power of holding on to an image that Ruskin describes so admirably is not the power of the eidetic; it is that faculty of keeping a large number of relationships present in one's mind that distinguishes all mental achievement, be it that of the chess player, the composer, or the great artist.

Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of beauty. For he did pursue beauty, and, therefore, Margaret's speeches did flutter away from him like birds.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.