Quotes About Focus

May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind.

This vivid consciousness of not being able to be or to do but one thing at a time purifies our demands of what that thing shall be. We then feel a repugnance for that juvenile narcissism which does no matter what, precisely because it doesn't matter what, and which nevertheless believes in its vanity that it is doing something.

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

you must study the endgame before everything else.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

If we're afraid, sometimes there are things that can feed on that fear. Fear makes it worse for us. The trick is to concentrate on what you can see and stop thinking about yourself. It works every time.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

whatever we frequently think of and ponder, that will become the inclination of our minds.

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. —W. Edwards Deming

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

When a person is worried, working memory is occupied and decreases one's ability to perform effectively and efficiently.

Therefore, the valuable tools of a remote viewer or any psychic are being able to quiet the conscious (ego) mind, learning never to demand a conclusion, intensely focusing on nothing specific, being absolutely neutral towards a target, being able to establish a fertile ground for conscious/subconscious exchange, and developing a common language between the physical and non-physical realities.

We go where our vision is.

Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

It is important to remain afloat, eyes on the horizon, always. The past is a drowning madman; throw him a rope, he'll pull you in. [Bram Stoker]