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Quotes About Focus

İşe en ba??ndan baÅŸla ve hat?rlayabildiÄŸin her ÅŸeyi sonuna kadar akl?nda geçir. Zihnine geri geldikçe ayn? ÅŸeyi baÅŸtan sona tekrarla. Bir süre sonra yorulur, parça parça silinir, çok geçmeden tümüyle kaybolur.
~ John Steinbeck
When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.
~ John Steinbeck
His attention seemed tied to her face by a taut string.
~ John Steinbeck
Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.
~ John Steinbeck
In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this. What
~ John Steinbeck
So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very few people learn this.
~ John Steinbeck
Ha oído hablar alguna vez de manos de plantadora? —La verdad es que no, señora —Bueno, lo único que puedo decirle es lo que se siente. Cuando se eliminan los capullos que no se quieren. Entonces todo se concentra en las yemas de los dedos. Lo hacen los propios dedos. Los ves trabajar. Lo sientes. Arrancan un capullo tras otro. Sin equivocarse nunca. Se funden con la planta. ¿Comprende?
~ John Steinbeck
I can do anything when my will is clean and straight. Anything.
~ John Steinbeck
Is thinking" focused not on ends but on the process of life
~ John Steinbeck
It's always hard to start to concentrate. The mind darts like a chicken, trying to escape thinking even though thinking is the most rewarding function of man.
~ John Steinbeck
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
~ John Updike
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.
~ John Updike
The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.
~ John Updike
I am surprised at how often researchers fail to draft a title early in the development of their projects. In my opinion, the working or draft title becomes a major road sign in research—a tangible idea that the researcher can keep refocusing on and changing as the project goes on (see Glesne & Peshkin, 1992).
~ Unknown
We had a policy of no looking back. Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions. Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work.
~ Unknown
If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.
~ Unknown
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
~ John Wooden
Make each day your masterpiece.
~ John Wooden
If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.
~ John Wooden
Never mistake activity for achievement.
~ John Wooden
Little things make the big things happen
~ John Wooden
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
~ John Wooden
It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.
~ John Wooden
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.
~ John Wooden