Quotes About Focus

Where your intention goes," Gary Zukav writes in his bestselling book The Seat of the Soul, "so goes you. Your intention becomes your reality.

our state of mind, more than anything "out there," determines our level of success.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more likely to keep going when the going gets rough.

But if we focus on the barriers, we're more likely to encounter them. We achieve what we focus on.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

The problem with research, of course, was knowing when to stop. "One must stop before one has finished," she advised, "otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Monocled and effete in appearance, cold and distant in manner, he concentrated with such single-mindedness on his profession that when an aide, at the end of an all-night staff ride in East Prussia, pointed out to him the beauty of the river Pregel sparkling in the rising sun, the General gave a brief, hard look and replied, "An unimportant obstacle.

The Prime Minister was not the only person unconcerned with odds and ends of this kind. When a German official, foreseeing the change to a long war of attrition, presented Moltke with a memorandum on the need for an Economic General Staff, Moltke replied, "Don't bother me with economics—I am busy conducting a war.

The first thing to be considered, with respect to education, is the object of it. This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

When you set him down, keep the leash loose and, if possible, out of his mouth. This is not playtime. Stand with him, moving him back and forth in a small area; 15 square feet is the maximum. If he's showing you how well he can sit, running a few steps may inspire him to get up. But you're not going anywhere. This is not a walk; it's "go potty" time.

What photons aren't banged, blocked, absorbed, diverted by our distracted attention, pass on and on.

Though I do keep lists of words that catch my attention for a variety of reasons, they rarely make it into poems, not infrequently because I lose the lists.

Concentration is the secret of power.

When you do that, you are operating from your center, from cause rather than effect.

When you focus on the problems, you get more of the same. What you focus on you create.

Principle I: We Are Either Now Here or Nowhere

When you change your focus from limitations to boundless possibilities, from doubt and fear to love and confidence, you open your world in entirely new ways. You stop worrying about fixing what's wrong with you and start living from all that's right within you.

the whisperings from the heart are always authentic and singular in their focus. The heart knows what it wants. The

Do not practice mistakes. Go slow enough that you almost never make a mistake.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.

Whenever you are playing or singing music, and you notice you're in a trying state, stop trying, and focus your awareness on a single element of your movement at a time. Observe your body, and watch it subtly shift to a more relaxed and accurate kind of performance.