Quotes About Focus

But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

How well I would write if I were not here!

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!… I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In

Try to foresee now everything that might make you interrupt your reading. Cigarettes within reach, if you smoke, and the ashtray. Anything else? Do you have to pee? All right, you know best.

I ja tak?e chc? tylko jednego: by? kim?, kto wie, czego chce!

the position of the feet during reading is of maximum importance

Are you reading or daydreaming?

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune.

To plan a book — or an escape — the first thing to know is what to exclude.

Ma è difficile di trattenere il proprio pensiero dall'occuparsi di un argomento che troppo c'importa. L'uomo sarebbe un animale più fortunato se sapesse farlo.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.

Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.

Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast blame for failure on subordinates.

Our problem is not too little time but making better use of the time we have.

The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.

There are times that you must do everything you can to do everything you must.