Quotes About Focus

Every soul is born with concentration; it loses this faculty as it grows up.

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

It takes work to shift your focus from the smudges on the window to the view outside.

At 6 A.M., I quit email because that's what writers do if they want to get some motherfucking writing done.

What should I be doing right now?" is a question that feels more urgent than ever.

crushes are often just misplaced ambition

Well, since you probably missed the coach's pep talk, I'll improvise. Go out there, get your head out of your ass, and score our team some points.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. —Vince Lombardi

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Consolidation is good. If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less too.

One thing on your list to worry about. Put all your worry into that one thing. Worry about it as much as you like, as much as you need to. But only that one thing. Anytime any of the other things flits across your mind, take that concern and channel it into your one thing.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less

So the intent was clearly focused: friendship, laughter, food.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.

I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity. Too much thinking never solved anything.

A great passion has no partner.

Procrastination hurts almost any project, but it's murder on a travel journal. First

We might be mad or stupid, but at least we were serious.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

Survival must be the highest objective; otherwise nothing could be achieved.