Quotes About Focus

Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away

This is the magic formula – desire toward a goal, which spawns action toward that goal. Continuous desire is the fuel. Daily action is the fire. The word "continuous" is important, as is the word "goal." Without these two operative functions, desires are scattered, actions are unfocused, and not much happens. With them, anything is achievable.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

90% of the game is half mental.

It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious.

The notion that too much information can be a distraction is off the mark. The quantity of information is irrelevant; it is the relevance of any quantity that matters.

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world's sloppy errors, one among many, which might be easily corrected if only people would bring to the problem the focus she brought to everything.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world-in its dramatic as well as its quiet times- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

Although the most powerful art, it sometimes seems to me, it's an experience and a going-through; it is love comprehended by, expressed and enacted through the artwork itself, and for this reason has perhaps been more frequently created by people who feel themselves to be completely alone in this world —and therefore wholly focused on the task at hand— than by those surrounded by loved ones.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

The present was too urgent to let the past intrude.