Quotes About Focus

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

He forced his mind to picture a brick wall, to feel a brick wall, smell a brick wall, become a brick wall. He lost all sense of time, but the bricks stood out. He heard the voices questioning him, but he turned their sounds to bricks for his wall.

Perceiving Clearly The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. William James (1842-1910) Can we trust what we perceive? William James pointed to another attribute of attention: it helped augment the ''clearness of all that we perceive or conceive.

Do some involuntary forms of ''no-thought'' attention normally exist that can be cultivated during long-term meditative training?

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue...

Their crowing and the vapors of the hot sauce helped clear enough room in my head to think about out what I had to do. Planning my day was a way of not giving into despair. It really is not possible to pay attention fully to two things at once. For instance: carpentry and suicide.

We can learn to use the fire of our minds to good purpose.

It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.

He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

Wise leaders seek to understand how the brain reacts to stress and practise simple, almost meditative techniques to stay calm, clear and connected. They use maps, mantras and anchors to navigate their way through highly pressurized situations, both personal and professional, and to bring themselves back to the moment. In this way they and their teams stay on top of their game and on top of the situation.

Walsh knew,' Stuart Lancaster, the current England rugby coach, told rugby writer Mark Reason, 'that if you established a culture higher than that of your opposition, you would win. So rather than obsessing about the results, you focus on the team.

si estableces una cultura del esfuerzo más elevada que la de tu oponente, ganas. Así pues, en lugar de obsesionarte por los resultados, te concentras en el equipo»

Champions do extra.

Te das cuenta de que la vida es un juego de pulgadas. También el fútbol. Porque en los dos juegos, el de la vida y el del fútbol, el margen de error es tan pequeño… En este equipo luchamos por esa pulgada. En este equipo, nos destrozamos por esa pulgada… Porque sabemos que la suma de todas esas pulgadas marcará la diferencia entre ganar y perder.

The fight is won or lost,' says Muhammad Ali, 'far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, well before I dance under the lights.

If I was going to become a great detective, I would have to learn to master my own libido.

and work meant an end to my diet of lotus flowers.

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

As men we cannot take our eyes off the road for even a second. One bad moment can destroy a lifetime of careful watching. One weak, selfish decision can crash a decade of keeping your eyes on the road. God grant to us Holy Throne-Room clarity at all times in every situation so that what we are really living for doesn't crash before our eyes.

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

They should stick to knitting," Napoleon had once said.