Quotes About Focus

The mind wanders and the mouth, it seems, is more than willing to follow.

If you keep looking back, you'll keep walking into crap.

Hold their noses to grindstone.

You cannot see the wood for the trees.

According to Zen legend, when a visitor asked the fifteenth-century master Ikkyu to write down a maxim of "the highest wisdom," Ikkyu wrote one word: "Attention." The visitor asked, irritably, "Is that all?" This time, Ikkyu wrote two words: "Attention. Attention.

During the eighteen months that followed Halley's visit, Isaac worked day and night on the book. He didn't mind the sacrifice. A living, growing thing took shape before his eyes. Never mind that he ate irregularly. Never mind if he kept at it eighteen hours a day. The book would be worth all the effort.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

An imbalance of these neurotransmitters is why some people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) come across as stress junkies. They have to get stressed to focus. It's one of the primary factors in procrastination. People learn to wait until the Sword of Damocles is ready to fall—it's only then, when stress unleashes norepinephrine and dopamine, that they can sit down and do the work.

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Shine

With meditation, the misinformed assumption is that the practice is aimed at relaxation and bliss. It is not. It is about attention and awareness of the here and now, which is precisely what wild people need in order to survive in a state of nature.

if you have an important afternoon brainstorming session scheduled, going for a short, intense run during lunchtime is a smart idea.

I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because

The race is to the driven, not the swift.

No se puede escribir una novela o componer una canción, no se puede acordar una adquisición o ampliar una oferta sin una completa dedicación a la tarea que se tiene entre manos.

El miedo te desordena tanto las ideas que no te deja ver nada más.

Recuerda lo que valga la pena recordar. Ignora el resto.

COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.

You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

Never mind the horse's blind, just load the wagon.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.