Quotes About Focus

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

Scythe Anastasia is not your concern. She's my only concern.

I like the idea of communication tethering you to a single spot, Tenkamenin told Anastasia. It forces you to give every conversation the attention it deserves.

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

Keep your eyes on the prize, although I think he should have also said Go after the prize, too; and maybe that's why prizes ever came his way, because all he ever did was look at them.

Putting me at the forefront of his thoughts drew out what little energy he had left, just as when I had focused on helping him - and I realize this is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.

One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom. Lev can't hope to compete with that.

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too.

I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. But for now, consider that life a part of your past.

But why waste time lamenting the paths that had closed? Best to embrace the one path that remained.

And he knows it's not just a threat-he'll do it. Today, he'll hit a grand slam if he has to.

One crisis at a time!

People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you're number one and there isn't even a number two.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

then sit down and write or stand up and write but write no matter what the other people are doing, no matter what they will do to you.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.