Quotes About Focus

Each of us has a finite reservoir of energy in any given day. Whatever amount of energy we spend obsessing about missteps we have made, decisions that do not go our way or the belief we have been treated unfairly is energy no longer available to add value in the world.

While working on The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci regularly took off from painting for several hours at a time and seemed to be daydreaming aimlessly. Urged by his patron, the prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, to work more continuously, da Vinci is reported to have replied, immodestly but accurately, 'The greatest geniuses accomplish more when they work less.

In short, we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation—whether that's resisting a cookie, solving a puzzle, or doing anything else that requires effort. "The

La tarea de un líder es movilizar, concentrar, inspirar y renovar periódicamente la energía de las personas que lidera.

It's not how much time we invest into our work that determines our productivity but rather the value we produce during the hours we work.

It's that human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.

What was it we were so busy with?" "Work, probably. And falling in love - that takes an awful lot of time.

You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save.

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for.

You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're safe.

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

His racket never allowed Gordon to experience the vitality that came from full commitment to a project.

Shift your focus of attention from what you are doing to the way you are being. Specifically: Are you being the "invented future and context" that you created, or are you being "right," dominating and avoiding domination, and justifying the way you are?

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

Your mind is your nine

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

NO TALKING. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT TALKING IT WILL BE ASSUMED YOU ARE CHEATING.

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