Quotes About Focus

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

That's it...I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.

I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.

Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

Drake. He liked dangerous pies. Why did he join you? Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it? Focus. Why did he join you? Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache. p. 432

You can't fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best.

Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.

But I do know that there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.

environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the danger and isolation would help focus the

Successful people sort through priorities and act upon them, while the unsuccessful see only a fog of chaos. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, instruction to business trainees

The Spacing Guild needed vast amounts of melange to fill the enclosed chambers of their mutated Navigators. He himself, and all the upper classes in the Empire, needed daily (and increasing) doses of melange to maintain their vitality and to extend their lives. The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood needed it in their training to create more Reverend Mothers. Mentats needed it for mental focus.

Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

If the intention is clear the mechanism will appear

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.