Focuses The Mind Quotes

#1. Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

Jeremy Clarkson

#2. Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Fear focuses the mind.

Meryl Streep

#4. But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

John Crowley

#5. Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

D. Wayne Calloway

#6. The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Bruce Springsteen

#7. to the depths of your awareness and to the unknown. The first steps are willingness and courage. Five minutes per day is enough to get started. Even a one-minute conscious pause will make a difference. Beginning with the simplest form of meditation can establish discipline, which focuses the mind

Myra Lewin

#8. The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Jasper Fforde

#9. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#10. The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Brian Greene

#11. When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind

Octavia E. Butler

#13. Our thoughts shape how we behave.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Norman Vincent Peale

#15. I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

Jeffrey Tambor

#16. A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.

Pearl Zhu

#17. My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

#18. Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

Flower A. Newhouse

#19. You have touched my soul, and I have seen your heart, and I know I am forever changed by the essence of you.

Jenna Roads

#20. Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

Dean Koontz

#21. I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Marc Almond

#22. Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything ...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

Marina Keegan

#23. When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

Jane McGonigal

#24. Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

#25. What the mind focuses on, it feasts on. And if you want to know what a person's focus and feast is, all you have to do is listen to the words that come out of her mouth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#26. Deputy? What was the point of being deputy? "I want to be the leader!" Crookedpaw

Erin Hunter

#27. After all, if I started confiding my innermost problems to someone, I'd have to do something about them. And I'm not ready for that yet.

Kathleen Tessaro

#28. Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Matt Smith

#29. We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true
humor.

Mark Twain

#30. The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Lysa TerKeurst