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Quotes About Focus

It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
~ David Foster Wallace
Some answer or trick of the will: the ability not to think about it. What if everyone knew this trick but Claude Sylvanshine?
~ David Foster Wallace
Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.
~ David Foster Wallace
That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work.
~ David Foster Wallace
lo más peligroso que tiene la educación académica, por lo menos en mi caso, es que habilita mi tendencia a intelectualizar las cosas en exceso, a perderme en el pensamiento abstracto en lugar de limitarme a prestar atención a lo que está pasando delante de mí. Y en lugar de prestar atención a lo que está pasando dentro de mí.
~ David Foster Wallace
On one level my attention was intently focused on her voice and story. On another level I - it was if my mind was having a garage sale.
~ David Foster Wallace
Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.
~ David Foster Wallace
Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.
~ David Foster Wallace
Quiero ser así. Capaz de sentarme inmóvil y empujar la vida hacia mí, una frente cada vez.
~ David Foster Wallace
La vita è come il tennis vince chi serve meglio
~ David Foster Wallace
you can't keep the thoughts from popping in there. The thing they try to teach you is just to Let Them Go, the thoughts. Let them come as they will, but do not Entertain them.
~ David Foster Wallace
It you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
~ David Foster Wallace
A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.
~ David Foster Wallace
80 percent of a product's usage involves 20 percent of its features.
~ Unknown
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
~ William Shakespeare
More matter with less art.
~ William Shakespeare
agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.
~ William Shakespeare
But, soft! methinks I do digress too much
~ William Shakespeare
Less art, more matter
~ William Shakespeare
Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.
~ William Shakespeare
The which if you with patient ears attend
~ William Shakespeare
What matters it what went before or after, Now with myself I will begin and end.
~ William Shakespeare
But my behavior was really the result of the illness, which had progressed far enough to produce some of its most famous and sinister hallmarks: confusion, failure of mental focus and lapse of memory.
~ William Styron
Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of now.
~ William Styron