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Focus Quotes



"Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul)."


"So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it."


"You must sit down and do a complete analysis of your dreams in order to achieve them."


"You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective."


"If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal."


"Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing."



"The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows."


"To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products."


"Don't live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."


"A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey."


"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."


"Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention."


"Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price."


"To be busy minding other people's business, is to leave one's personal business unattended to."


"When your drive is moving your purpose, focus must hold the wheels else your might miss the way. And do you know what that means? Avoid Crash!!!. Stay focused!"


"Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done, else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!"


"In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea-and there always is one-is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long."


"Always make positive use of every second and minute."


"Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages."


"The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end."


"If you will reach your dream land as sooner as possible you have to leave everything behind and fix your eyes on one thing, the journey ahead!"



"It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent."


"Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away."


"You can't do everything, so pick what is important and focus on that relentlessly."


"Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters."



"There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based."



"The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money, focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!"


"Your calling is your natural area of concentration."


"Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose."


"Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose."
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