“I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.” LittlesTurnsFocusSpeedLittle Things Author:Ryan Lochte
“The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.” ArtTurnsFocusThousandStreamsIntensityMeadowsMillsOne Deep Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.” WorldMadeTwoEyeLyingTurnsFoundSidesVisionSawsFocusCuttingSeeingFrontsFieldsOriginalsLaysCentreExtensionsStopping Author:Joseph Plaskett
“The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.” MindTurnsFocusStonesStressMereDustOperationsInwardGrindMillsIncessant Book:Faustus Source: Faustus
“Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.” ChildrenPersonsEyeTurnsFocusBlindInjusticePetBlind Eyes Author:Lori Foster
“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsMindRealSelfFactsFeelingsHumorEarthTurnsProcessLaughingFocusPlanetsProductsLaughterCapacityDestructionSpeciesWitObsessedDryElephantsOutlookComfortingFashionableLiteralWhalesEnergeticPlanet EarthSelf DestructionLightnessFrivolityEndangered Species Author:Rita Mae Brown
“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.” FeelsProblemTurnsFocusInstitutionsThreatTendenciesInternalsInwardHostilitySlippingSlipping Away Author:David Brooks
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.” FeelsTurnsConsciousnessFocusBreathsBottomStormRisingRising Up Author:Nhat Hanh