Quotes About Focus

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love—which probably wasn't possible, given that he was likely a psychopath—his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about.

The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that changes nothing. Anytime you say anything, I think about sex. Anytime I see you, I think about sex.

He'd have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.

When he concentrates like that," Gaston told me, "if you're really quiet, you can hear the gears in his head turning. Sometimes you catch a faint puff of smoke coming out of his ears…

Tonight it was just me and him, and nothing else mattered.

That was before I had my coffee. I'm not responsible for any information delivered pre-caffeine.

Decide what you want and go for it, Fred, it's just a matter of will power! I remember you saying that to me more than once.' I did not recall saying this nor did it sound like anything which anyone would say more than once, assuming he had ever had the misfortune to say it at all, but I was glad that Freddie had such rosy memories.

There had been a slaughter of all my other interests, and upon the strange white open scene of the future only one thing remained.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.

he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)

Living like this is a full-time business.

He feels the bleakness crawling into his skull; Franco breaths in steadily, trying to tune in all out, that pressure on your brain, eroding focus, diverting the flow of thought down old ruinous canals...

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

Il dolore è una cosa da concentrarcisi sopra.