Anne Wojcicki Quotes

I try to stay focused.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

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

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.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

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.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

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.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

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

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.

Keeping my focus on what's important - inside the Octagon and out - is never lost on me.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

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

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

It's all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.