Quotes About Focus

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

I'm sure if I continue to do my work maybe good things will come in the future but for me the most important thing is always the next day, the next training and the next match.

I'm focused on the good things and that makes you really appreciate what you are doing with the team and the time you are out there on the court.

I love cooking; it's a very good way to get your mind off things.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

I seek out good work.

Lookit!" he said, pounding a nearby table. "My job is not to deal with this people thing! My job is to kill the enemy!

Writing does a lot of other things, of course. People write books to instruct. They write books to move us, to scare us, to enlighten us in all sorts of ways. But basically what these works of literature or of art are doing is to say, Stop thinking. Stop expecting. Stop living in the past. Stop living in the future. Stop doing anything and just pay attention to this.

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.

Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain.

We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject.

Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work!

The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

chess fir-ma-ment. Morphy, Angler, Judy Kaplan....

he was a sporadically ardent chess player now in the midst of a sporad.

These people who are always talking, reading, and thinking about sex are like singers who think more about their larynx than about singing. They make that which is subordinate to a higher purpose so all important that the harmony of life is upset.

For love concentrates on the object, sex concentrates on the subject.

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

el ruido no necesita la lectura.

My yoga teacher says to think of your thoughts like skateboarders passing through our line of vision; just watch them go by, don't try to follow them down the street.