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Quotes About Focus

Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
~ Eoin Colfer
We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
~ Eric Maisel
If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?
~ Eric Ries
Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.
~ Erin Willett
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
~ Ernest Newman
I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
~ Evan Daugherty
I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
~ Evelyn Ashford
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
~ Ezra Pound
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
~ Fergie
Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
~ Flora Thompson
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.
~ Franny Armstrong
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
~ Frederick Busch
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?
~ Frederick Lenz
Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.
~ Frederick Lenz
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
~ Frederick Lenz
Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.
~ Frederick Lenz
When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind ... just say no.
~ Frederick Lenz
Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.
~ Frederick Lenz
Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.
~ Galcher Lustwerk
Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.
~ Gary Chapman