Quotes about Focus

Let the unconscious do its work. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

End first, then beginning and middle. That's your startup, that's your plan for competing in a triathlon, that's your ballet.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

A professional schools herself to stand apart from her performance, even as she gives herself to it heart and soul. The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.

I type that. I type the whole chapter and the one after that and the one after that. Do I have a plan? Am I taking notes? I'm working mindlessly, like a chimpanzee. I want Hemingway's stuff to sink into me by osmosis.

Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to move into the future God has for us.

That's why prayer is so important. It unites your heart with God's. And it connects you to who matters more than anything else in your life. Prayer keeps your heart undivided.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.