Quotes About Focus

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

The more their attention is directed to how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they're doing.

For the walk, count "one, two, three, four" or you could say, "bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter" along with your pony's steps. For the trot, try humming a song like "Jingle Bells" or counting "one, two, one, two" as you post.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

ignore the pain, play through it.

Discipline turns the dream into reality.

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.

The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.

Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.

Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference between that moment and the one before it. No one made choices for me. I made them. If I took no risks in the choices I'd made, it was because I didn't have the courage to take them or didn't want to live with the consequences. I didn't want to risk disappointment myself. It had been safer to defer than to strike our on my own.

The focus on Auschwitz is a form of displacement for what we don't want to know about our own national crimes.

Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.

scientists have determined that staring at a smartphone screen for a long period of time induces a form of hypnosis).

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.

Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.