Quotes About Focus

The first step of any therapy is a little self-awareness. I want you to think about the ways your habits, your belief systems, your personality quirks have been developed to help you and protect you. Then ask yourself if they are truly working or if they're hurting you. For instance, when you feel a headache coming on, focus on something in front of you. Something real, like your hand, to keep you in the moment. It sounds small, but it helps, I promise.

Don't you think it's a good idea to . . . I don't know. To slow down sometimes? To look around and see what you want out of life?

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore.

No amount of careful would have been enough. We have to focus on what we can do, not what we wish we could.

every story - love or war - is a story about looking left when we should have been looking right.

Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.