Quotes About Focus

Keeping a website or a software program afloat is like keeping a yacht afloat. It is a black hole for attention. I

We are unconsciously distracted by seeing our reflection. You can alleviate a lot of the fatigue of teleconferencing all day if you turn off your self-view.

the value of our attention has been remarkably stable over 20 years.

We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

Ask yourself, how much of your time do you spend developing someone else's product? How much developing yourself?

As a professional programmer, you should know that trying to be focused and "productive" 60 hours a week is not a sensible thing to do.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Never forget what is in your mind

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

Most of us are so focused on the day-to-day struggles of life that we lose track of our long term goals. But then one day we look in the mirror and think, 'Who the hell is that?

Trying to write on a deadline is like trying to have an orgasm with a gun to your head.

The more centered you are, the less you occupy the center. That's when awareness begins.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

There was nothing like staring down the barrel of a suspected cyberweapon to clear the fog in your mind.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Thinking about something and not going for it is like swimming without moving

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.