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ac882aa It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. change focus grow growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking stay-focused step-out-of-comfort-zone transform Roy T. Bennett
9d1e7dc If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. focus future happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes letting-go-of-the-past life life-and-living life-quotes live living living-in-the-present living-life living-life-to-the-fullest living-now worry Roy T. Bennett
4ff7a54 Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. attention direction focus inspirational motivational Zig Ziglar
ae08e0c Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses authentic-living being-positive blessing blessings character focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking reputation strength weakness Roy T. Bennett
a327293 Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive. adversity focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-calm life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking stuck Roy T. Bennett
40fe65d Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. focus goals Paulo Coelho
06f0c11 Focus on your goals, not your fear authentic-living being-positive fearless focus goals inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
0f8f2cb What you stay focused on will grow. focus grow inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking stay-focused Roy T. Bennett
d5e5e02 Life is short. Focus on what really matters most; you should change your priorities over time. focus inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking priorities priority time Roy T. Bennett
20471d6 When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it. focus goal-setting happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation Stephen Richards
e36e4d5 The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. focus intensity time Robert Greene
f3468dd "But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind." file focus how-to-write imagine quiet writer writing Anne Lamott
6d202f2 There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. faith fears focus perspective suspense C.S. Lewis
b80e05d If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious. composition concentration focus inspiration writing Muriel Spark
67b7825 "Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately. Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing "what is" while their introverted peers are asking "what if." extroverts focus introverts problem-solving processing-information tendencies thinking thought-patterns Susan Cain
2d402a1 "Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that." focus Walter Isaacson
cefd4f3 "One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products." focus Walter Isaacson
b0a5f9c Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something - a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug- he would resolutely ignore it. That focus allowed him to say no. He got Apple back on track by cutting all except a few core products. He made devices simpler by eliminating buttons, software simpler by eliminating features, and interfaces simpler by eliminating options. He attributed his ability to focus and his love of simplicity to his Zen training. It honed his appreciation for intuition, showed him how to filter out anything that was distracting or unnecessary, and nurtured in him an aesthetic based on minimalism. focus intensity Walter Isaacson
4970510 ...on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out. focus pax-templi Laurell K. Hamilton
5ab42bf "Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. alcohol anxiety art balance be-okay chest coffee crying drinking ed fine flowers focus grateful gratitude happiness hope hopeful hopeless hurt inspiration joy lovely lovers madness mental-health music new-day okay panic panic-attack panic-attacks park recovery sad sadness self-destruction self-harm sing singing sky smoking songs sound spring starving tears walking well-being wellness Charlotte Eriksson
800b463 When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use). focus search sign Paulo Coelho
fbbb7d9 "[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them." focus novels writing P.G. Wodehouse
6b42c35 "In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful. The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell." Page 68" artist author creative-block focus marine perseverance writers-block Steven Pressfield
7844e08 It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic--love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up. bureaucracy cataclysm focus men women Bonnie Jo Campbell
0b437c2 A God-focused attitude is positive and directs you to better the lives of those you love while giving God the glory. better christian directs focus give glory god lives love positive Elizabeth George
2f58398 "Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at Apple. Instead of encouraging each group to let product lines proliferate based on marketing considerations, or permitting a thousand ideas to bloom, Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. " There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. " That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that." concentration confidence focus Walter Isaacson
952965e No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work. focus obsession Susan Vreeland
a8d6ca2 The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed focus self-discipline silence Barbara W. Tuchman
2ae0c10 He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures. focus meaning-of-life pleasures-of-life puritan Henry James
b20f3fe When you're driving, you don't focus on everything at once, but you have peripheral awareness of it, right? You focus on what you need to at any given moment, whether it's the car in front of you, the jackass in the lifted truck passing you, or the sirens behind you, whatever. Everything exists, everything is there, but you don't have to see it all at once. Does that help? You don't have to see all the bindings you're seeing right now. Just focus on the outlines of the physical stuff you saw before. focus Kevin Hearne
f77d0b6 But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn't want to be here at this dance, with people he didn't want to talk to and messages he didn't particularly wish to deliver. He didn't want to dance with young ladies he didn't know, and he didn't want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. He forgot about Tallywhite. He forgot about pease, porridge, and pudding, and he stalked across the room with such single-minded purpose that the crowds seemed to melt from his path. And somehow, amazingly, the rest of the world had not yet noticed her. She was so beautiful, so uncommonly alive and real in this room full of waxen dolls. She would not go undiscovered for long. But not yet. Soon he would have to fight the throngs of eager young gentlemen, but for now, she was still his alone. beauty focus love Julia Quinn
7d013da Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle. focus god prayer victory win Stormie Omartian
58babaf He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. focus manners politeness Barbara W. Tuchman
a7f21d4 If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. distraction focus job ministry vocation Barbara W. Tuchman
e7f0b04 Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question. focus life Diana Butler Bass
2de8720 There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive. chance focus future path Robin Hobb
2a8d618 "Your Life is always a result of your thoughts. [...] Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness. [...] "Fate" can be an acronym for "From All Thoughts Everywhere." In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The "collective consciousness"." fate focus how-the-world-works mass-consciousness new-age power-of-thought powerful-thinking powerful-thoughts spiritual Neale Donald Walsch
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