Quotes About Focus

Although the role of serendipity is familiar, what's not so well appreciated is how different serendipity is from luck. Serendipity is not just an apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally, as my dictionary defines it. Serendipitous discoveries are always made by people in a particular frame of mind, people who are focused and alert because they're searching for something. They just happen to find something else.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.

That's all it was.

Only perspective brings truth into focus. Where you stand when you look at the facts will determine how they appear.

A VISION is a precise, clearly defined goal with a detailed plan and timetable for achieving that goal.

Dreams without clearly defined goals, and goals without clearly defined steps, will never be achieved expeditiously or efficiently, and will rarely be achieved at all.

True diligence runs contrary to human nature.

A lo largo de sus vidas, cada una de estas personas habló de la importancia de tener una visión clara de lo que querían conseguir antes de ponerse en marcha en la búsqueda de sus consecuciones.

UNA VISIÓN es un objetivo preciso y claramente definido, con un plan detallado y programado en el tiempo para alcanzar dicho objetivo.

You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.

I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

It was time I stopped worrying about greater issues and applied myself to my personal well being.

Daniel was coming to him. Whatever else these people thought or felt was irrelevant.