Quotes About Focus

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

A good marksman may miss.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.