Quotes About Focus

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

We spend more time wasting time on thinking about wasted time.

The only plan that truly matters is the one you have for yourself.

To sense energy accurately, learn to get quiet, to step outside your thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and to become a blank screen so that you can receive impressions.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time.

Sandra Marton

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

People can only pull you in one direction at a time.

Your vision and willpower must be exponentially greater than any goal, resolution or vision board you have ever written.

After that experience, I decided that the things that were more important to do were the things I was actually not focused on, and I wasn't focused on them because I was pretty much afraid of failing," he says. [quoted from Mark Roth]

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

MEDITATION - Nothing Without Consciousness?

Je moet niet verdrietig worden van het verleden. Of moedeloos van de toekomst. Je moet je concentreren op het heden. Als dat goed zit, komt de toekomst vanzelf.

Uno necesita un presente, para no tener que pensar en el pasado.