Quotes About Focus

Why couldn't he bear down and concentrate? Because he was scared, that's why.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

There is power in dangerous love. You can be so focused on the forbidden nature of it, justifying your choices to the world—me falling in love with Griffin while still legally married to Nate, Griffin giving me all his attention instead of trying to find a workable custody agreement with Margot, instead of doting on his devastated sons—that you miss the fact you're completely wrong for each other.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Minha musa inspiradora é o meu prazo de entrega.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

I made a commitment to myself to try to keep out of trouble. I sincerely believed that this terrible momentum was a thing I could impose my will on, something that could be slowed down.

The exhumation of your soul will be successful only if you dig one deep hole rather than a lot of shallow ones.

What you needed more than anything, for the purposes of ambition, was certainty, was a belief that the rest of being, the entirety of the cosmos, should not be allowed to penetrate and divert you from the cause--the chief and primary cause, which was, clearly, yourself.

It is important to be totally prepared, though it is equally important to make sure that you don't overtrain.

I know what is wrong. You havn't decided what you want.' She'd underlined this many times. 'Terribly important to draw up a balance sheet every now and then, debits and credits. Decide what's important, what's worth fighting for. Don't drift, ever. Decide then act. If you fail well at least you tried. Don't know what you want so can't advise you how to get it.

A man needed a clear mind to fight his foe, not one distracted with thoughts of whether the fishpond might please his wife. Or who found himself mooning about how she was a hard worker, and so kind-hearted. Or thinking on how her laugh was high and full of joy and made him want to smile. Or daydreaming on how sweet her kisses were, and how good it felt to bury his cock in her warm body. Or wondering whether she might care for him as he'd come to realize he cared for her.

She'd found it was always best to live in the here and now rather than waste time with past events or what she couldn't have and what could have been. Mind you, living in the here and now wasn't always easy, but she did her best.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

My feelings of love may be unbounded, but my capacity to be loving is limited. I therefore must choose the person on whom to focus my capacity to love, toward whom to direct my will to love.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.

We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.