Quotes About Focus

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

Work on. " Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

The rush of sexual attraction can act like a drug and blur our capacity for clear thinking. This can lead us to distance ourselves from our friends or even abandon our life plan for someone who couldn't otherwise be relied on to water our plants and feed our cat.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

This is my decade. Nothing is going to stop me.

I know what I want in life and I will do whatever it takes to get it.

I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals.

There is no sense in having a goal if you aren't going to go after it.

Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. Focus all your energy on being a better person so you can become successful, no matter what the signs say.

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

Worry is refusing the given. Today's care, not tomorrow's, is the responsibility given to us, apportioned in the wisdom of God. Often we neglect the thing assigned for the moment because we are preoccupied with something that is not our business just now. How easy it is to give only half our attention to someone who needs us—friend, husband, or little child—because the other half is focused on a future worry.[14]

Worry is refusing the given. Today's care, not tomorrow's, is the responsibility given to us, apportioned in the wisdom of God. Often we neglect the thing assigned for the moment because we are preoccupied with something that is not our business just now. How easy it is to give only half our attention to someone who needs us—friend, husband, or little child—because the other half is focused on a future worry.[14] Whenever you are tempted to dwell on fearful

Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

When you're talking to Mike, you have his undivided attention and you feel like you're the most important person in his world.

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. Its like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialing out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

We can never see the sunrise by looking toward the west. Japanese proverb

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

She knew she was obsessed, but it was turning out that she was the kind of person who needed to be obsessed with something, and she could have done a lot worse.

Now that he was teaching Quentin could see why the faculty didn't bother trying to improve the climate. It kept people amazingly focused. … You could actually watch as the determination to seize the moment and live life to the fullest ebbed right out of them, and they resigned themselves to lonely, silent, indoor study instead.