Quotes About Focus

The enemy's gate is down.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

Isolation is—the optimum environment for creativity. It

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way

Through their training, they had all learned that winning depended on being able to forget everything but what you were doing at that moment. You could hold all your ships in your mind at once — but only if any ship that no longer matters could be blocked out completely. Thinking about dead men, about torn bodies having the air sucked out of their lungs by the cold vacuum of space, who could still play the game knowing that this was what it really meant?

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing

Life is too short to learn German

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither.

If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all practical courses naturally grow up.

He who chases two rabbits catches neither.

15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.

To prepare for any struggle is largely a work of unburdening oneself. If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death. Austerity lifts the heart and focuses the vision. Travel light. A few ideas are enough. Every remedy for loneliness only postpones it. And that day is coming in which there will be no remedy at all.

He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

Oh, ever once in a while I'll catch myself slippin into manual override. But I catch myself. I catch myself.

Don't get caught in your own thoughts, Fox. They would make her blind and deaf.