Quotes About Focus

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

I love to draw. I spend hours every day drawing.

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I dont want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

She had lost interest in crayoning.

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.

centre round or around. 'Their argument centres around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act' (The Times). Centre indicates a point, and a point cannot encircle anything. Make it 'centre on' or 'revolve around'.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

She always said, You boys aren't rich enough to afford not to pay attention.

Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen. Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen.

She is buttoned-up as always, a smart suit, dark hair pulled back, never letting her guard down while on camera. Her job, she has told me more than once, is not to make friends with the staff but to keep them organized, praise good work, and sweat the details so I can focus on the hard, big stuff.

You boys aren't rich enough to afford not to pay attention.

The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, all we ever have is now.

It's the main thing I do in my life. I read and I chew glasses. That's my job. -- WSJ interview, 9/10/19

David Foster Wallace. (I'm preparing for his mammoth novel Infinite Jest by

In other words, "getting to zero

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created. It's a lifestyle that allows us, when our heads hit the pillow at night, to reflect with gratitude that our day was well invested and the varied responsibilities of our lives are in order.