Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

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

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

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.

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

I just try to play with more focus on myself; I don't worry too much about the other things that maybe gave me too much pressure in the past.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

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.

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

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.