Quotes About Focus

But if you worry about everything, you wind up worrying about nothing.

In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.

I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?" Thus

think of baseball, because you don't

York Giants' linebacker has been so completel

An afternoon can fly by or it can take 5 hours. Like you probably do, I productively fill the gaps that most people leave as dead time. My drive to be productive probably cost me my first marriage and a few days ago almost cost me my fiancée. Before I went to college the military had this "we do more before 9am than most people do all day" and I used to think and I do more than the military.

Instead of focusing on profits, trading managers focused on revenues.

working on this book has been those long

Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny

You cannot wait for the smoke to clear: once you can see things clearly it is already too late. You can't outrun an epidemic: by the time you start to run it is already upon you. Identify what is important and drop everything that is not.

train were harder than usual to ignore. They were

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

but the truth is - and I am ashamed of this now - that I was far more interested in boys and bicycles, than in politics - and more in bicycles than boys, I have to say.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world.

Attention must be paid.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.

We have a tendency to assume that what we can see is the important thing to look at.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it's not even there, while simultaneously being very aware of the camera and what it's capturing, because you can give the best performance of your life, but if you do it with the back of your head facing the camera, it's going to get cut from the movie.