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Quotes About Focus

Qué es importante y que no lo es? Nunca se puede decir. Hemos de fijarnos en los menores detalles.
~ Agatha Christie
It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.
~ Agatha Christie
Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: They distract the mind from food! You
~ Agatha Christie
Do a thing well then leave it alone .
~ Agatha Christie
To separate the main issue from the side issues is the first task of the orderly mind.
~ Agatha Christie
And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.
~ Agatha Christie
I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.
~ Agatha Christie
Progress by elimination," said Sir Charles.
~ Agatha Christie
Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.
~ Agatha Christie
That's what she always wanted to be—at the centre of things.
~ Agatha Christie
It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.
~ Agatha Christie
Women however charming, have this disadvantage - they distract the mind from food.
~ Agatha Christie
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
~ Agnes Repplier
Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with. (...) Before my eyes -or, more precisely, in my mind- Rasher became Lovely Bum Man.
~ Aiden Shaw
Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with.
~ Aiden Shaw
Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with. (...) Before my eyes -or, more precisely, in my mind- Rasher became Lovely Bum Man.
~ Aiden Shaw
Either we can be Conscious of the Now, or we can be grazing like a cow... chewing thoughts one by one, losing Life till it is done.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Careful patience is the fastest way!
~ Ajahn Brahm
The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.
~ Ajahn Brahm
it's not the sound that disturbs you; it's you who disturbs the sound.
~ Ajahn Brahm
it's the nature of the mind to be restless.
~ Ajahn Brahm
If we want to go further, then instead of being silently aware of whatever comes into the mind, we choose silent present-moment awareness of just one thing.
~ Ajahn Brahm
That is all we want to see, so that is all we do see.
~ Ajahn Brahm
There's only one book worth reading: the mind
~ Ajahn Chah