Focus Quotes - Page 33

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

I focus on the moment and move from task to task.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

You feel what you're focused on.

Whatever you focus on is what you get.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.

If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.