Quotes About Focus

Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination

When your attention is diffuse, it's like a broad, weak beam of light that doesn't reveal much. Concentration brings the weak beam down to a single, sharply focused, supremely bright, exponentially more illuminating point.

Not paying attention keeps us in an endless cycle of wanting.

The first time a meditation teacher encouraged me to practice mindfulness—which

Much of our day we are pushed around by unhelpful habits such as being distracted or disconnected, holding on too long when circumstances have already changed, or not being wholehearted in pursuing an opportunity. Meditation can open us to alternative responses such as focus, awareness, and productive questioning and that leads to more fulfillment and better work.

Famed basketball coach Phil Jackson, a meditator himself, arranged to have his players—first the Chicago Bulls, and then the L.A. Lakers—learn meditation as a way to improve their focus and teamwork. Jackson finds that mindfulness assists players in paying attention to what's happening on the court moment by moment. Such precise training in attention has paid off during tense playoffs; Jackson has led more teams to championships than any coach in NBA history. Meditation

Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

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Here was no McClellan, begging the boys to allow him to light his cigar on theirs, or inquiring to what regiment that exceedingly fine-marching company belonged.… There was no nonsense, no sentiment; only a plain business man of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command over the river in the shortest time possible.

Grant was as usual a good deal more intent on what he had in mind to do to the enemy than he was on what the enemy might or might not do to him.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

Many humans prefer tiny gods," said the Gardener. "Tiny gods of limited preoccupations…

Silence was his short bow and quiver of arrows.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)

Are we just going to stand here taking pot shots at each other? Or can we focus our collective ADD on getting us off this shit hole? (Devyn)

It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.' (Sunshine)

Move forward with purpose

There's too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d'in. (Jericho) Yes, I di'id. Don't make me use my Jeri ninja mind tricks on you. I might screw up and fry your brains. (Delphine)