Martha Beck Quotes

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.

The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.