Quotes About Focus

Could you maybe not admire the evil enemy quite as much, and focus on how we're going to get out of this?

Myrnin: Oh, an all-night drive-through! I could murder a cheeseburger. Don't you just love this century? Oliver: Focus, you fool.

The trick to doing the impossible, I've found, is to simply never think past what is at your fingertips. Do the thing in front of you. Then the next. Then the next. In such ways have men built the pyramids, or climbed mountains, or raced to the moon on rockets.

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

She was laughing at something Dov was saying to her, but she was looking at me, like he was the distraction and I was the conversation.

She pressed her fingertips into the hard wood of the handrail until they whitened. She would constrict the world to a pinhole.

When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger

and takes the Glock in both hands.

Haters lived to hate, to exercise power over those they hated. They were obsessive about it. Focused. Relentless.

To be a winner, you gotta be in the game.

too much leisure was a dangerous distraction from the cold, hard realities of life

These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD

You can only be in one place at a time, odd one. So it's imperative that you be in the right place for the right reason

The focal point

One of Dorian Purcell's rules for living a good life was that no matter what you were doing, whether it was building a giant tech company or banging your mistress, breaking a competitor and driving him into ruin or playing pinball, you had to commit to it as if it was everything, as if your very survival depended on it.

Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.