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Quotes About Focus

More details, more devils.
~ George R.R. Martin
There were other things to tend to first. There were other debts to pay.
~ George R.R. Martin
Will you not weep?" "I do not have the time for tears.
~ George R.R. Martin
I need to write faster, but I make no promises. I found out long ago that when you look at the overall task, the cathedral you have to build, it looks so daunting that you just give up and sit down and play a video game.
~ George R.R. Martin
One foe at a time, that was what the old man always said.
~ George R.R. Martin
You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling, you stop thinking, you stop being you, there is only the fight, the foe, this man and then the next and the next and the next, and you know they are afraid and tired but you're not, you're alive, and death is all around you but their swords move so slowly, you can dance through them laughing." Battle fever.
~ George R.R. Martin
I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.
~ George R.R. Martin
My mind is my weapon.
~ George R.R. Martin
Tormund Thunderfist had better things to do than learn to make papers talk at him.
~ George R.R. Martin
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.
~ George S. Clason
If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do… the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
~ George S. Patton
Now if you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.
~ George S. Patton
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger, the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
~ George Santayana
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called "convenient deafness." I still am. I have the ability to tune out what is going on around me. It is normal for me to retreat inside myself and become less and less aware of my surroundings. If I am in a group and not talking, do not suppose I am listening. I am "away." I am off in another world. Off in my natural habitat, my mind. Being
~ George Sheehan
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
~ George Steiner
Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.
~ Georges Simenon
She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
~ Georgette Heyer
Come on, brain. Make words. Make. Words. "Hey
~ Georgia Beers
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
~ Georgia O'Keefe
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe