Quotes About Focus

Quit try­ing to fix your life. Deal with your one big is­sue.

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.

The se­cret is to not let your imag­ina­tion get car­ried away.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The

When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine.

La gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19

The secret is to not let your imagination get carried away.

Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.

Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it

Sometimes what happened now was more important to her than what would happen later, so to hell with it.

Do that and the carbs will only drag you down, make you mentally foggy. Stick with protein while writing. By the way, bacon is protein. Just saying.

Shut up and write.

You're not tasked with desalinating an ocean or training a komodo dragon to cure ebola. I'm saying, sludge yourself into the ass receptacle and peck keyboard keys like a hungry chicken until it makes words.

Kneel forward." Jess lifted her head and braced her hands, palms flat against the mat as she lifted herself into position.

You are used to having the focus on you. You've probably heard it many times before—it's all about the submissive. She remains in ultimate control, because she controls the scene. You are obsessed with your own pleasure and pain, and your effect on your Dom. When do you get a whipping, when do you get to come, does your Dom find you sexy, attractive, submissive, obedient?

Show us your grace, sub girl. Your body exists to please and serve us. Remember that. If you get some pleasure along the way, that's all well and good, but your focus should be on serving. If that doesn't work for you, you might need to rethink what you're doing here.

Next you will assume the position we call kneel forward. Keeping your legs spread wide, you basically assume a plank pose, but remain on your knees. It can be challenging to hold for an extended period of time.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

On the one hand, if you have a strategy that really is working, you need to deliberately focus to keep everyone working together in the right direction. At the same time, however, that focus can easily cause you to dismiss as a distraction what could actually turn out to be the next big thing.

Companies focus too much on what they want to sell their customers, rather than what those customers really need. What's missing is empathy: a deep understanding of what problems customers are trying to solve.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.