Bob Goff Quotes

I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

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

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.