Quotes About Focus

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

That's the trouble with other work-from-home types… sometimes they're actually working.

The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you.

Make sure you are seeing projects 100 percent of the way through, not just 95 percent... The last 5 percent of Train Your Brain for Success is about that last 5 percent in your life.

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man. Cicero has termed them intercisiva tempora, and the ancients were not ignorant of their value; nay, it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate, while under the operation of rubbing after the bath.

To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.

The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.

I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world.

Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.

Worry is just curdled energy!

Writing is easy. You just sit down and focus — but not too hard.

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

nose in books, head in clouds

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

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

Drive now. Text later.

Stay alive, don't text and drive.