Quotes About Focus

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

Only think of two things — the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

THE SEVEN TRAITS OF ELITE CAPTAINS 1. Extreme doggedness and focus in competition. 2. Aggressive play that tests the limits of the rules. 3. A willingness to do thankless jobs in the shadows. 4. A low-key, practical, and democratic communication style. 5. Motivates others with passionate nonverbal displays. 6. Strong convictions and the courage to stand apart. 7. Ironclad emotional control.

curricula must be an exercise in triage, in making hard choices about what gets thrown out of the story, so that the essentials can survive. . . . We need to be willing to identify those things that every American student needs to know and insist upon them . . . while paring away vigorously at the rest.47

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

If a man has not studied painting, or at any rate black and white drawing, his eyes are wild; learning to draw tames them. The first step towards taming the eyes is to teach them not to see too much.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

All I want is to be in the game.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.