Quotes About Focus

Mindfulness is about falling awake rather than asleep.

If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.

An older charismatic woman told me, "If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work." There

Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.

Reading.... is brain protein - it demands concentration and sustained neural energy.

Onze boosaardige aartsvijand had de concentratieboog van een peuter die hyper was van de suiker.

No wolf falters before the bite, so strike. No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing. No sun pauses before the set, just strike. No rain delays before the fall, just swing.

Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers.

You succeed because you're willing to give everything to your craft- everything!

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Why does every "now" have to be ruined by what will be?

I learned that the true purpose of working with a horse at liberty in a round pen is simply this: to capture his attention and get him interested in you.

To worry is to pray for what you do NOT want!

Your first five minutes dictate your day.

In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. Will he aim at your enemy? — From Cantra yos'Phelium's Log Book (quoted in many

Don't take life as a ADVANTAGE take it SERIOUSLY because it's not a game)

Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!

You know how athletes get ready for the Olympics? They swim early in the morning and late at night. They run around the track for hours and hours without a crowd to cheer them on.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

I have never been interested in taking students. They waste one's time and interrupt one's schedule.

Bonnenburger stopped listening, and went back to his book.