Quotes About Focus

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I was once again gripped by the old familiar passion; I wrote without looking up, nor did I look round either - neither to the left, nor to the right.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

no leas odas, hijo mío: lee los horarios de trenes. son más exactos.

Hanumant Deshmukh

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

Real reading is a lonely activity.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.

It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

we reduce anxiety in one relationship by focusing on a third party, who we unconsciously pull into the situation to lower the emotional intensity in the original pair. For

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

People know that Jacks of All Trades are Masters of None, and people seek out masters. They trust specialists. Try to appeal to thousands, and you will appeal strongly to no one. Find a niche.

Never focus your attention on anyone's weaknesses — his temper, sloppiness, poor logic, dishonesty, whatever. Recognize these shortcomings, take them into consideration, but don't waste your time complaining about them. Instead, pay attention to what your actions should be in order to deal with him.

I've concentrated upon the things I control, and used that control to remove the restrictions and complications from my life.

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. 'Cause there ain't no time; world don't want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.