Quotes About Focus

Code writers, like engineers generally, tend to get sidetracked by interesting but irrelevant conundrums.

His short attention span was both endearing and aggravating. His mind would wander so much that those who really needed to speak with him tried to isolate him from distractions. "To talk to Gordon you had to take him in the car, drive and not let him turn on the radio," one said.

Since he brought an exacting and grim seriousness to his tasks in the best of times, he found this same demeanor effective in the worst of times.

The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.

Only super-efforts count.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

El empeño principal del diablo es hacer que el hombre piense sólo en las cosas de la tierra.

But honestly, it's best not to think of the mechanics of flight while you're doing it.

Hi," Sam said, without looking at her. "You can watch if you want. I'm going to play until the end of this life." "That's a good philosophy," Anna said. She concentrated on the game and tried not to hear the nearby sirens

Of course, a wandering mind is not always advisable for the recently deceased and is nearly never advisable for the beginning driver.

The trick could sometimes be her phone, her (and everyone else's) fortress of solitude, and a practiced absorption in it.

Where is room for love? All you have is fear and a to-do list.

Hammer. Nail. Direct hit.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

want to lose myself in the work.' Andrew

To be really good at something, you can't be married. I believe that, along with Katharine Hepburn.

Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.

Had I not spent more than sixty percent of time thinking about sex in my early twenties, I could have reached sixty percent higher than what I am now! The red interest hidden in the black!

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.

Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

The car goes where the eyes go.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.