Seneca the Younger Quotes

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

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.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.

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

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

Once I get up on stage, I will have to forget who I am playing and focus on the game itself.

When you're playing your part, you don't watch other people - you just play your part.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

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.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.