Quotes About Focus

Gar manches Herz verschwebt im Allgemeinen, Doch widmet sich das edelste dem Einen.

Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--" "You." "What was that?" "I Want You.

Water boils at 212 degrees. At 211 degrees it's just hot. Every degree is needed.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

Leading in crisis requires an ability to remain composed, focused, and engaged when tensions rise.

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

St. Thérèse could not, of course, have suffered all the attacks on the will that we endure. But she deliberately did her utmost to avoid all distraction, both before and after her entry into Carmel. ... And we, too, could seek to strengthen our will by avoiding every distraction that does not belong to our station in life, and with the will strong, even these distractions would cease to turn us more than momentarily from our path.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

She was now the center of what surrounded her. All that was not her made space for her.

It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)

During those years he met his seminars, went & lectured & read, talked with human beings, paid insurance & taxes; but his mind was not on it. his mind was elsewheres in an area where the soul not talks but sings & where foes are attacked with axes.

Worry and worship are mutually exclusive.

To have a good idea, stop having a bad one. The trick was to inhibit the easy, obvious, but ineffective attempts, permitting a better solution

Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.")

we all have a number of executive subselves, and the only way we manage to accomplish anything in life is to allow only one subself to take the conscious driver's seat at any given time.

The danger in ingenious hardware is that it distracts attention from education. What good is a wonderful machine if you don't know what to put on it?

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Take your eyes away for a moment, then let them return to the object of contemplation, and it is as if you were experiencing the effect for the first time.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?