Quotes about Focus
There are so many things you can lose sight of as you try to win games and all the stuff we try to do every day.
— Monty Williams
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
— Barry Zito
One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.
— Paul Washer
Nothing concerns me other than my time. That is my only concern. I don't pay any attention to the rest. I run after time. If that improves, the gold, silver, etc. will follow.
— Hima Das
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
— Steven Pressfield
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
— Steven Pressfield
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
— Steven Pressfield
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
— Steven Pressfield
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop.
— Steven Pressfield
Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.' They
— Steven Pressfield
All that matters is I've put in my time and hit it with all I've got. All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance.
— Steven Pressfield
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
— Steven Pressfield