Quotes About Focus

One can't write of love while making love.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well.

I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun

Man kann den Wald nicht vor Baümen sehen.

Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.

If you wish to acquire recollection by practicing this holy exercise, remember to make use of a very brief means of ridding yourself of various distracting thoughts. This is that you say "No" to them when they come to you during prayer.

emblem. The meditator would place his head between his knees and whisper hymns and repeat the name of a magic emblem. Repetition of the magic emblem was used as the object to dwell upon and would chase away distractions and cause the "demons and hostile angels to flight." A state of ecstasy was reached, which Gershom G. Scholem, a scholar of Jewish mysticism, has described as "an attitude of deep self-oblivion.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Successful people in particular are susceptible to surges of anything-is-possible. They then plunge into new, seemingly attractive markets hoping to prove themselves to the world yet again. However, it is extremely rare that the same person achieves world championship or wins the Nobel Prize in two disciplines. Danger looms just around the corner if the new activity is too distracting and the core business is neglected.

It's all too easy to fall hostage to the urgent over the important.

Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are prepared to use it; when they do not require it they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would be unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiotcy, or be struck with paralysis.

Who can take a single step with his head?

Never procrastinate. Never say you'll do it tomorrow or the next day. Slow workers never fill their barns. Neither do procrastinators. Diligence does the job.

I followed him as closely as a three-legged racer toward the bar.

Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.

Once he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, her fingers flying so fast he couldn't see how it worked. 'Slow down,' he said, 'so I can see how you do it,' but she'd laughed and said, 'I can't slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn't do it at all.

there is an art to being in a hurry but not showing it." 390

Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those piffling little similes of yours. Work out what it is you want to say. Then say it in the most direct and vigorous way you can. Eat meat. Drink blook. Give up your social life and don't think you can have friends. Rise in the quiet hours of the night and prick your fingertips and use the blood for ink; that will cure you of persiflage!

Reculer pour mieux sauter.

Try to work on the scale of eternity. Do you see? Otherwise you will be fettered by trivia. The daily frustrations will cripple you.

Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star. Tonight there was a sky full. Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe.