Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

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.

The act of paying attention contains tremendous power.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

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 think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

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