Quotes About Focus

The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

Coisas muito mais surpreendentes podem acontecer para qualquer um que, quando um pensamento desagradável ou desencorajador vem à mente, apenas tenha a sabedoria de lembrar a tempo e expulsá-lo substituindo-o por um corajoso com determinação. Duas coisas não podem ocupar o mesmo espaço.

Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?' Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.

Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.

Tribulation came from losing sight of Jesus and looking at the troubled, fallen world. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.

There's only one lady I want, and I'm looking at her.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don't be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That's what I always say.

Don't belittle today's moment—the "now"—by trying to move into another metron prematurely

Time wasters, however, must be dealt with harshly or they may ruin our spiritual potential in God.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

Paul stepped past her, lifting his binoculars. He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff, lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand. Jessica

You must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside might not even exist.