Affirmations are positive statements that (describes) a desired situation or goal and are often repeated, in order to get them impressed on the subconscious mind.
Seek time is the time required to move the disk arm to the required track. Rotational delay or latency is the time it takes for the beginning of the required sector to reach the head. Sum of seek time (if any) and latency is the access time. Time taken to actually transfer a span of data is transfer time.