Quotes About Focus

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

I'm just beginning to get a sense for ways I can use golf - or perhaps mountain biking at some point in time - to stay focused on causes that are dear to my heart.

Writing time has to be created.

By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

You can't hate and ball at the same time

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.