"Focus on something, don't move your head, don't shift your eyes.
To see things to the left or the right, shift your eyes in their sockets or turn your head from side to side.
Now, shift your eyes from despair to regrowth and back again, and think about how much can change in a decade, or a day.
I am quite aware that if you shift your eyes a bit on the page you are reading you will likely encounter advertising.
Shooting a #Selfielapse was easy, though it's tempting to shift your eyes back and forth from the camera at the top of the phone to the screen where you can see yourself and frame your video.
Just as you would at a big family dinner, raise your eyebrows, shrug your shoulders, and shift your eyes toward the person sitting next to you--the international signal for "skip me and come back when I don't have my mouth full".
To learn to talk like an elf and walk like an elf and eat like an elf and smell like an elf and to shift your eyes around like an elf and to gracefully float down a set of stairs like an elf –- that was the hardest bit for me, especially because I have very bad acting hangovers from "Lost".
Periodically shift your eyes to the side-view mirrors, the rear-view mirror, and ahead to where you'll be in 10-15 seconds.
"Seeing offensive plays, the triangle, the guards, the fullback, being able to get the entire blocking scheme and the entire pass patterns, shifting your eyes down the receivers.
Shift your eyes, and there are entire eras, heaving up and clashing in brutal misunderstandings, gears grinding.
