Quotes About Focus

One hour of work in peace and quiet is worth two hours in the office when other people are there, meetings are happening, and you're distracted.

It's okay," Mom said, instantly absolving him of any guilt. It was as if she had become so accustomed to disappointment, so inured to people reneging on their promises that she expected setbacks, heartbreak. Couldn't Merc see the panic in her eyes? Couldn't he see how she focused on me, expecting me to figure everything out?

All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.

If you wish to become significantly better at something, you can.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something. The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for.

At least we had work to do, and work fills in the time, and time is the enemy.

My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

When a man wants something he must pursue it with all he has. - Salvadore, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

Life outside of my profession? I didn't have one. My profession was my life. It was better that way. - Rip, Anti-Nice Guy

Instead of worrying what others think of you, concentrate on what you care about instead.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I'm going to go after what I want.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Leaders can't afford to let their hearts get in the way. They must always do what needs to be done.", FADE by Kailin Gow

A Kung Fu Master is a Practitioner of Martial Arts Who Keeps Practicing.

This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Every word, every brushstroke, every note from an artist should be deliberately so.- Kailin Gow on Efficiency

My parents thought that I had ADD when I was young," I say, remembering. "I couldn't concentrate well then. That just made me frustrated. Angry. It was only when I started running… running helped me to deal with it.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.

Images and thoughts will constantly rise up within us. Let them recede into the background. In the foreground, put Jesus.

He knew it was a paramount failure of friendship to disappear into a relationship, but to be in his friends' company now felt like stepping back into the aimlessness that had characterized his life before Aneeka came along and became both focus and direction.