Quotes About Focus

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

Compartmentalize and conquer.

I had to get myself moving before the problem started looking too big. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.

greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.

Stop doing lists are more important thanto do lists.

Gente boa precisa ter coisas grandes para fazer, senão leva sua energia criativa para outro lugar.

O melhor sinal da riqueza não é manter uma agenda lotada, mas ter tempo disponível para se concentrar no que é importante.

The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.

Beware of worldliness—it can turn your heart away from God.

Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely.

Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

He had an elaborate, to me, theory that even the simplest of us could raise the quality of our lives by vastly increasing our level of attention.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows.

You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

I spent my next hour reshelving, and the next thirty minutes straightening out the Mc's and Mac's. Nobody on God's earth understands the Mc/Mac principle anymore. In order to do that, you have to be willing to think about something other than your genitals for a full minute.

It's more common for the students I've worked with to read too much than to read too little. They use reading as a distraction, or as a way to avoid having to think their own thoughts, or as a magic charm: "If I read everything in the field, then I'll be able to write and be sure I haven't missed anything.

One of the most common problems encountered among the students I counsel is biting off too large a topic or question for their dissertation. Don't feel like you're cheating or slacking off if you end up reducing the size of your project.

I promised myself that I would maintain momentum. Maintain momentum was the imperative that echoed all the way downtown. In fact I had no idea what would happen if I lost it. In fact I had no idea what it was.

recognize now that there was nothing unusual in this: confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred