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Quotes About Focus

C'est en désirant la vérité à vide et sans tenter d'en deviner d'avance le contenu qu'on reçoit la lumière. C'est là tout le mécanisme de l'attention.
~ Simone Weil
By George! cried the inspector. How did you ever see that? Because I looked for it.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ahora que me ha puesto usted al corriente, haré lo posible por olvidarlo
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Don't worry about anything. Even if you find your attention wandering, there is no particular 'thing' you have to hold onto. Just let go, and drift in the awareness of the blessing. Don't let small, niggling questions distract
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
We are here to learn to create by raising our vibration and becoming a clear channel of focus and intention.
~ Sonia Choquette
Shifting your energy from an overactive mental activity to a grounding physical activity often jump-starts your creativity as well.
~ Sonia Choquette
The best way to avoid low-level telepathy is to turn off that channel by focusing on what and who you love. Doing this shifts your focus to your spirit and automatically tunes you in to your higher telepathic channel, the heart. The telepathy of the heart does not broadcast spirit-to-spirit. It is a much higher frequency, one where we connect with one another from our highest, most authentic, Divine selves.
~ Sonia Choquette
To avoid this "psychic contamination," stay focused and committed to your own priorities and goals. The more defined your aims are, the more likely you will avoid the riffraff and not wander into energy that doesn't belong to you, serve you, or possibly derail you. The stronger your intentions and priorities, the better your intuitive GPS, as well as your energetic boundaries, will become, and the more insulated you'll be from any unwanted influences.
~ Sonia Choquette
Learning to detach is a difficult skill for those of us who are naturally empathic. In picking up vibes, we tend to pick up everything, and it takes serious focus to avoid doing so.
~ Sonia Choquette
Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella
You get self-obsessed when you're ill. You can't see anything around you.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Every promotion requires you to do less of the thing you originally wanted to do
~ Sophie Kinsella
But there's no point. He's busy with his life - and I'm busy with mine.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!
~ Sophie Kinsella
Small talk depletes creativity. Social media stifles thought. Even choosing an outfit every morning is needless effort. So, for one week, we will let all that nonsense go. We will engage instead with big talk. Character. Plot.
~ Sophie Kinsella
But I've had a lot of time to think about this, and if you ask me, most people underestimate eyes. For a start they're powerful. They have range. You focus on someone thirty metres away, through a whole bunch of people, and they know you're looking at them. What other bit of human anatomy can do that?
~ Sophie Kinsella
If you listened to every pang, you wouldn't get anywhere in life
~ Sophie Kinsella
Everything inside me has shifted. I'm stronger. Not only am I able to let go, I'm happy to let go. I'm focused on the future.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
~ Sophocles
Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.
~ Sophocles
That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.
~ Sophocles