Quotes About Focus

My peace and focus, in any case, had been shattered, and there was no hope now of a steady hand.

Swing hard; follow through to the other side of whatever you are swinging at. Zanya Farweather had been swinging at my soul.

Whiskey pricked up his ears, arching his neck, knowing himself displayed.

There was something tremendously comforting in having an adult appear and take care of things, Perceval admittd, watching the tall white man stir dinner with curious focus.

It didn't matter because it was out of my control, and my energy needed to go to things that I could control, or at least hope to affect the outcome of.

I couldn't hold a thought. I couldn't accomplish a task without being distracted. And I couldn't keep my temper at all.

You bumped your psychopathy up, didn't you?" He smiled generously. "Of course I did. I'm flying. Can't be distracted by doubts.

I clamped and stitched and cauterized, somehow finding myself in a zone of total focus where the noises of half a hundred different species trying to make themselves urgently understood seemed distant, unreal.

Anxiety was a distraction I did not need.

He could not be distracted by his darling girls when he must be about seducing villains.

Funny how he could always tell exactly where Michelangelo's attention was, even when Angelo was pretending it was somewhere else.

I decided to give more to the goal than to the limitations.

was so attached to the problem that I wasn't giving any energy or attention to the solution.

His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,looking for something, something, something.Poor bird, he is obsessed!The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.

One study has found that people who tend to focus their minds more on what they are currently doing have longer telomeres than people whose minds tend to wander more.5 Other studies find that taking a class that offers training in mindfulness or meditation is linked to improved telomere maintenance.6

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

his gaze. 'But then my responsibilities would be much greater

if it doesn't matter what you do, then how do you choose what to do?

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.