#focus

People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #buddhism #focus #meditation #therapy

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#blurs #center #focus #judge #judgement

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#focus #journeys #life #motion #time

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #focus #worry #life

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#let-go #letting-go #motivation #simplicity #surrender

We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus. ↗

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#motivating-story #stories #story-teller #story-telling #motivational

I try to stay focused on my creativity. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#focused #i #stay #stay focused #try

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#anything #being #camera #did #film

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#been #enough #feature #focused #funny

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it. ↗

— Tom Araya

#especially #focus #good #i #really