Quotes About Focus

As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done.

In later studies, Mischel discovered that the successful children were those who looked away from the temptation or were able to think about other enjoyable activities.

Mischel discovers that the number of seconds you waited to ring the bell in 1970 predicts not only what your parents say about you as a teenager but also the likelihood that you were admitted to a top university. Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted.27

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects.

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

We're all gonna die trying to get it right, so aim high, and aim true. —Vance Joy

with all your heart and all your brains.

You want to be relaxed when you play, and practicing while worried or anxious won't help you achieve that relaxation.

If you're not engaged and active in a learning situation, you probably won't get much out of it, just as Serge's example illustrates. Get the most out of your practice by coming to lessons—or any learning situation—with specific goals in mind. One of the most powerful things you can learn from a teacher is how to practice. Some teachers

Focus on mastering the music as deeply as you can, and worry less—or not at all if it's possible—about impressing others

Experts who accumulated 10,000 hours of practice weren't trying to accumulate those hours; their focus was elsewhere, on the task at hand.

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

I'm an optimist who keeps my goals narrow.

intentionally ignore the handrail. Midway

Cohen said, "Okay, no sense dillydallying

From Heartbreak Hotel: (Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple" "Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow

Jonathan Little

I got this," said Nix, raising her bokken.

Shooting a pistol while running with any accuracy at all is next to impossible. They train us at the Academy to do it at a walk. Slow yourself down, focus on the target. Be relentless, but be accurate. Nobody ever won a gunfight by missing what they were aiming at.

Your phone is not your problem. The problem is when we let our phone captivate us so significantly with the unimportant that we ignore the important all around us.

The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

It's easy to lose sight of your own goals when the universe's goals can be so demanding.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.