Quotes About Focus

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

Proficiency is not benevolence. There is an art to being present.

Worship is focus.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

I have always been a business person.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.

Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a substitute for Getting. It. Done.

I always know I'm talking to a gardener or a photographer if at any given time, they know where the light is.

There comes a time when you have to let go of the New Yorker fantasy in service of justing getting on with it [writing].

It's just a game," she says. Make no mistake: people who say it's just a game are out for blood.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

important key to learning to draw is learning how to set up conditions that allow this mental shift that enables you to see and draw.

As a side benefit, this cognitive shift to a different-from-usual mode of thinking results in a marvelous state of being, a highly focused, singularly attentive, deeply engaging, wordless, timeless, productive, and mentally restorative state.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Not noticing requires energy.

When you lack inner order, it is easy to be overwhelmed by a multitude of possibilities, all of which compete for attention and time—and none of which achieve the desired peace.

Discover what hinders or interrupts your attention and make a plan to reduce the distraction. Then put the plan into action.

Seeking out the Word helps immensely, I've found. It helps to push out the distractions that can cause confusion.

When we talk about earth's most customer-centric company ... we want other companies to look at Amazon and see us as the standard bearer for obsessive focus on the customer as opposed to obsessive focus on the competitor.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.