Quotes About Focus

It Is Not about Controlling Thoughts, It Is about Guiding Thoughts

Love is an exercise in selective perception

Which wolf will win?... whichever one you feed

it is amazing what you can accomplish when you do it in a "take no prisoners" manner.

In our business, it is helpful to get to the one or two really important numbers that need to be considered. There isn't time for more." We concur.

LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE Every now and then, take a mental step back from whatever you're doing. Ask yourself some basic questions: How does what you're doing solve the problem? How does it advance your thinking? Is it the most important thing you could be doing right now? If it's not helping, why are you doing it?

Visualization is not just some spiritual event—it's a basic cognitive process.

We only have one wireless connection with the real Internet, and that's our mind. There isn't a single moment in our lives when our mind is not functioning as the basis of all our interactions—not even one. So it makes sense to train ourselves in the skilful operation of this basic interface. This is what meditation is for.

When we try to do more than one thing at a time, another deeper problem starts to develop. In the frenzy of juggling it all, we tend to shift our focus away from the things that matter and toward activities we don't really need to be doing at all. We

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?' 'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you—you—and only you. Didn't you know?

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

So understood, the art of archery is rather like a preparatory school for Zen, for it enables the beginner to gain a clearer view, through the works of his own hands, of events which are not in themselves intelligible.

That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!" It took me a considerable time before I succeeded in doing what the Master wanted. But—I succeeded.

Tikrasis menas yra betikslis, nes?moningas! /.../ Jums skersai kelio stoja tai, kad turite per daug klusni? vali?. Manote, kad tai, ko nepadarysite, ne?vyks.

Rather, our eyes have become lazy, our attention spans atrophied. Our self-preoccupation had reduced us to tunnel vision.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

In order to pray I have to be paying more attention to God than to what people are saying to me; to God than to my clamoring ego.

I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to.

So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.

That's when the phrase (from Nietzsche) "a long obedience in the same direction" embedded itself in my imagination and eventually became this book.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. A