Quotes About Focus

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Obsession is a young man's game.

Men are led by trifles.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.