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Quotes About Focus

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
~ Oscar Wilde
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
~ Oscar Wilde, John Cooper
Trouble sharpens the vision.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Bat, pigeon, ravens - I don't care about distinctions right now. Any fluttery, flappy thing is not cool with me.
~ P.C. Cast
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie's fairy-light-thing. Do you think there's any chance I'm a fairy?" "No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.
~ P.C. Cast
but before they could do anything this bright light zapped them." I paused, thinking through my panic. "Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie's fairy-light-thing. Do you think there's any chance I'm a fairy?" "No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction.
~ P.C. Cast
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine—tense, absorbed, single-minded.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
a chap after the horses.' He had found the right
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Lord Emsworth had one of those minds capable of accommodating but one thought at a time--if that.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might just as well pop right at it and get it over.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Most of the Underhills came into the world looking as though they meant to drive their way through life like a wedge.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
~ Pablo Picasso
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
~ Pablo Picasso
Inspiration existis, but it has to find us working.
~ Pablo Picasso
Sin una gran soledad ningún trabajo serio es posible
~ Pablo Picasso
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
~ Pablo Picasso
Whatever you focus on expands
~ Pam Grout
You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.
~ Pam Grout
It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.
~ Pam Houston
Magic Success Formula for Writing: Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and write!
~ Pam Zollman