Quotes About Focus

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about

I don't like this idea It is too much focus on something I am trying to forget I am afraid that this attention to detail will only fuel my anxiety

I wonder if I am too close to even see what is written on them. This close, everything is just a blurry mess.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.

To ADDRESS  (ADDRE'SS)   v.a.[addresser, Fr. from dereçar, Span. from dirigo, directum, Lat.]1. To prepare one's self to enter upon any action; as, he addressed himself to the work. It lifted up its head, and did addressItself to motion, like as it would speak.Shakesp.Hamlet.

The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving.Lockeon Education,¶ 176.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in the morning, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

To AFTEREYE  (A'FTEREYE)   v.a.[from after and eye.]To keep one in view; to follow in view. Thou shouldst have made himAs little as a crow, or less, ere leftTo aftereye him.Shakespeare'sCymbeline.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

That which you focus on will expand in your life. And if you're constantly noticing what you lack, then the deficiencies in your life will become overwhelming.

Gavin was lying on his bed watching ESPN. He should have something more constructive to do than watch a replay of a soccer game between two European teams. Why wasn't he up and dressed, doing something rather than lazing in bed

when her eyes shifted to him, it was a repeat of

important goal today may turn to ashes tomorrow simply because we turn our attention to something else. We

The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

It's never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.