Quotes About Focus

Una delle prime risorse dello scrittore professionista che Isabella aveva imparato da me era l'arte e la pratica di procrastinare. Ogni veterano del mestiere sa che qualunque occupazione, dal temperare la matita al catalogare le ragnatele, ha la priorità al momento di sedersi alla scrivania per spremersi le meningi.

What was essential, he argued, was not what the pursuer could see or guess, but what was within range of the pursued person's vision.

at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos

La maggior parte degli uomini, inclusi quelli che osservavano per professione, confondevano il vedere con il guardare, e quasi sempre si soffermavano sui dettagli ovvi che velavano la lettura al di là di ciò che era irrilevante. Leandro diceva sempre che scomparire nello sguardo dell'avversario era un'arte il cui apprendimento poteva durare un'intera vita.

Be content feeling moved in a delightful, loving way by something mysterious and unknown, leaving you focused entirely on God, with no other thought than of him alone.

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading.

Allie's eyes followed him as he walked away. He filled out those jeans really well and she could imagine what that tight butt would look like with nothing on it at all. Good lord, she had to get a grip.

Keep everything going at once and organized." He shrugged. "It's not so hard. Visualize the end, and start at the beginning.

One thing is for sure, she thought. Work is the best antidote for worry. I'll get back to Twin Elms and do some more sleuthing there.

I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I'm afraid that if I stop writing I'll stop thinking and start feeling.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

She was an arrow in need of a bow, to send her off in one direction or another.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

Hay ocasiones en que la mayor necesidad de un hombre es tener a quien amar, un punto en el que centrar sus emociones difusas.

No one could work forward without falling if they continually looked at the path behind them.

Marianne was surprised, not for the first time, that one can concentrate really hard and even enjoy thinking about something which isn't at all what one is really wanting to think about.

Life has a way of getting what it wants when it really knows what it wants.

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Paths are so much clearer when people stop looking at what everyone else is doing and instead concentrate on themselves.

Life's kind of like a painting. A really bizzare, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is just a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more.