Alex Honnold Quotes

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

Everywhere else in the day, my brain is in a thousand different places, but when I'm working out, I can only focus on the pain.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.