Quotes About Focus

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped things. How much more satisfying it was than all that skimming, all that jumping around. At present, he was working his way, deliciously, through a book on Mendel, the father of genetics. A man who might not have spend seven years watching peas, if he'd had the internet.

Mr. Leszczynski attended class faithfully, arriving on time, and rarely succumbed to the undergraduate impulse to check his cell phone for messages or relentlessly zip and unzip his backpack in the final minutes of class.

Solitude encourages reflection and productivity, if you're prepared for it.

Form one essential vision when you start your drawing that will be evident upon completion

y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.

No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro

como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa.

I'm going to think only about you, it's the only way I'm conscious of myself...

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Johnny seguía mis palabras y mis gestos con una gran atención distraída, como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa.

E se corria a oitenta quilômetros por hora em direção às luzes que cresciam pouco a pouco, sem que já se soubesse bem para que tanta pressa, por que essa correria na noite entre automóveis desconhecidos onde ninguém sabia nada sobre os outros, onde todos olhavam fixamente para a frente, exclusivamente para a frente.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

En la calle la gente estaba a otras cosas. Las suyas, las que les importaban. Nada que ver con las mías, que de conocerlas les parecerían una estupidez.

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

go in the direction your head is pointed in.

blur trying to shy away from the camera. I listen to her advice and on my way to and from work I concentrate on the other

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

For me, science wasn't about the big picture but the small one—the

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.