Quotes About Focus

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

Believe it or not, it's a question of honesty," he said. "If a person is clear about what they want to achieve, if they set about achieving that goal objectively and with precision, more often than not they will succeed.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.

I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction...

He never thought of Carton. His mind was so full of the others, that he never once thought of him.

It's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

I and my husband have enough to do to keep this wine-shop open, without thinking. All we think, here, is how to live. That is the subject WE think of, and it gives us, from morning to night, enough to think about, without embarrassing our heads concerning others. I think for others? No, no.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

The need itself is not the call.

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

Maintaining focus on the breath cannot happen through forcing, but only through allowing. In fact, it is extremely easy; our habit of making things hard is what gets in the way.

Because writing is a creative process. One idea sparks our imagination, so we often go off on a tangent to explore that new idea. Then another idea sparks a new idea, so we go off on another tangent. But to stay on course—not just in a paragraph, but also in a larger piece as well—we need to make sure every paragraph states and develops just one idea.

But to stay on course—not just in a paragraph, but also in a larger piece as well—we need to make sure every paragraph states and develops just one idea.

Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.