Quotes About Focus

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You get through a crisis by doing what needs to be done next.

forgotten, in a hormonal haze, she held. "I could use some of that coffee.

You've got eyes on that block.

Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

she approached

When she finally muscled her way off, she reminded herself to be clear, thorough, and dispassionate. She reached Whitney's outer office, and his admin. "I need

If you are not fully in the game you are playing, however, you are not truly playing it.

squarely now.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Can you drive any faster? Tohr demanded. I got the pedal to the medal The angel looked back. And I don't care what I have to mow over

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan.

With his chin dropped to his chest, he was staring at her from under his brows, his pale yellow eyes glowing as they locked on her and her alone. Her first cogent thought was that he was a predator. Her second… was that she wanted to be caught.

Sometimes life brought you to corners that you saw coming, big changes altering your direction and focus thanks to a given event, like a mating or the birth of a young. Other times, though, the glacial shifts came without warning, popping out of nowhere.

He willed his hands to be steady by vowing to saw them off if they embarrassed him.

concentrate to do so

Come on," he said in a bored voice to the shadow. "We have to clean house first.

I'm rambling." "And I could listen to you talk for hours, so don't focus on my account." "Yeah, well…focus is important." "Only if you're a microscope." She smiled a little.

As V lit up and inhaled, he tried not to look at the cop and failed. Fucking peripheral vision. Always did him in.

Christ. You can be a real pain in the ass, you know that? No impulse control, but totally single-minded. Helluva combination.

There were times in life when the aperture of your attention span narrowed to such a tight focus that your entire consciousness rested upon a single person.

the difference between pain and labor. Pain got your attention. Labor demanded all your attention.