Quotes About Focus

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Time Warrior is much more than tips and tricks.

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.

interrupting myself and my own dream over and over.

It is impossible to work with a definite sense of purpose and be depressed at the same time. Carefully planned work will motivate you to do more and worry less.

stop stopping.

winners focus, losers spray.

how "violent" a swordsman you are going to be before your day begins. How much uninterrupted time will you carve out for yourself? Will you be a true time warrior? Because if you will, you'll love your timeless time.

Self-motivation is all a matter of how much in control you want to be.

To exclude everything that was not the fight from consciousness was where the real fight was won.

It's hard to be aggressive when you're confused.

Simplify. Focus on results. You will always get what you focus on. If you merely focus on activities, that's what you'll get...a whole lot of activities. But if you focus on results, that's what you'll get. A whole lot of results.

The simpler you keep it, the stronger it gets.

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future

By being ruthless.

If you focus on the pain, and think of nothing but the pain, you will not get anywhere," Doug pointed out. "You have to accept the pain for what it is, and then focus completely on what you want. The more you focus on what you want, the less the pain matters." Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.

The "violence" in the words "time warrior" was intended. For although the work you do can be slow and easy, you must pull out your sword ahead of time to carve out periods of space and silence.

It's amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all the opportunity it contains. It is said that in America we try to cultivate an appreciation of art, while the Japanese cultivate the art of appreciation. You, too, can cultivate the art of appreciation. Appreciate this hour. This hour, right now, is pure opportunity.

It's not what we do that makes us tired—it's what we don't do. The tasks we don't complete cause the most fatigue.

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention

Most of the time, … we … are at best only partially engaged in the moment. … [O]ften [we are] lost in thought or reverie – barely here at all. (…) How often we miss the moment simply because we're not here. We tune out much of the world – and much of ourselves as well[.]

Throughout most of our lives, we're so caught up in this and that, rushing through these wonderful distractions and stages, that we don't (or can't) take the time to settle into the mellow light that's always there and to let freshness suffuse the frame. Thus we miss this simple matter of just doing and living fully.

Los mejores planes suelen ser los más sencillos

Algunas de nuestras decisiones más sensatas tienen que ver con lo que decidimos no hacer.