Quotes About Focus

It's Your World...Pay Attention

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing.

The focus should be on Indian atrocities in Kashmir, not on our support for the Kashmiri resistance.

We can cite the tribesman who pointed out that the circles in spider webs are sticky, whereas the radii are not. This means, he said, that if you wander from side to side in life you get stuck, but if you move toward its center you don't. p380

There are worse kinds of infidelity than the sexual. I was living with one of the most interesting women in the world, and too often my attention was elsewhere.

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

I did very much hope that he wasn't frittering away his time on nonsense when he had a fantasy to dream about.

The magic of Paul's intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I've ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down. To count a hundred million stars, he told me once, at the rate of one per second, sounds like a job that no one could possibly complete in a lifetime. In reality, it would only take three years. The key is focus, a willingness not to be distracted. And that is Paul's gift: an intuition of just how much a person can do slowly.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

He awoke in the evening completely refreshed. After a cold shower, Bond walked over to the Casino. Since the night before he had lost the mood of the tables. He needed to re-establish that focus which is half mathematical and half intuitive and which, with a slow pulse and a sanguine temperament, Bond knew to be the essential equipment of any gambler who was set on winning.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus Ã¢â'¬â€œ that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the world" Ã¢â'¬â€œ but only if the desire to move the world is there.

He continued to play like an automaton, never speaking except when he gave instructions in a low aside to the croupier at the opening of each new bank.

When I get on an aircraft all I can see outside is wing.' The American next to her had said, 'Listen, Ma'am, you go right on seeing that wing. Start worrying when you can't see it any longer.

one could drown in irrelevance.

When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in-you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we'regoing to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return

But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine

In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing.

If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis.

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