Quotes About Focus

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

Train your brain to gain.

From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE.

God as love expresses the idea that the sacred is not found in a distant object toward which we focus our love, but rather is testified to in the act of loving itself. Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

Lord, you know my world can be nonstop and complex. Help me to balance the demands coming at me today, remembering you while I work, and keeping you at the center of all I do. In Jesus' name, amen.

Martha's problems, however, go beyond her busyness. I suspect that if Martha were to sit at the feet of Jesus, she would still be distracted by everything on her mind.

Norvig: I think one of the most important things is being able to keep everything in your head at once. If you can do that you have a much better chance of being successful. That makes a small program easier. For a bigger program, you need extra tools to be able to handle that.

Business and human endeavors are systems…we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

Constraints shape and focus problems and provide clear challenges to overcome.

The problem with this approach was that product developers focused mostly on incrementally improving existing products, rather than coming up with new, potentially breakthrough, ideas.

Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.

We will focus attention on binary relations as these are by far the most important. If R ? S × S is a binary relation on S, it is common to use the notation aRb in place of (a, b) ? R.

One piece of advice that I would give people playing pick-and-prays

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

dünyan?n iki buçuk milyar nüfusundan yaln?z bir tek insan üzerinde ?srar?n bir monomaniden ba?ka ad? var m?d?r?

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON