Quotes About Focus

Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away This is no time for thee to sleep Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Let us see God before man every day.

Be Here and Now Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Jadi, jika aku ditanyai, "Apa yang harus kulakukan untuk menjadi penulis sukses?" Aku akan menjawab bahwa kau harus menginginkannya lebih daripada kau menginginkan yang lain.

Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.

Like a small business, a novel cannot afford to carry dead weight, even if it is a close family member. It is likewise unnecessary to introduce a mother and/or father into a narrative—usually through the medium of a long telephone call on the subject of 'How's things?'—to demonstrate that the protagonist does, like all mammals, have parents.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.

When I was growing up, playing hockey was what I thought about when I woke up and when I closed my eyes to go sleep. I was still thinking about hockey, hoping I would have a dream that involved the game.

and yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

She just played with it slowly, and then pointed a pair of grey eyes at me. I say a pair. I mean her pair. She didn't get a pair of someone else's out from a drawer and point them at me. She pointed her own pair of huge, pale, grey, pale, huge eyes at me. The sort of eyes that can make a grown man talk gibberish to himself. Get a grip, for Christ's sake.

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

It makes no sense to hurry up, and so mess up, what I am doing now in order to get started on what I plan to do next. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

When you first start email marketing, concentrate on one persona only. You can add others later.

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.

I think as a writer you always have to be 'present' in what you write.

the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave was intrigued by the intensity and diversity of the themes that the sydney-based painter included in his landscapes

you cannot plunge in blindly…lest you miss the forest for the trees and there be no end to your labors.