Quotes About Focus

most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

Just do what you do best.

Baseball is only dull to dull minds

Keep your stick on the Ice

I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellence, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.

that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.

For 'tis not enough to have good faculties, but the principal is, to apply them well.

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

discipline comme tu saignes!

Ne t'attarde pas à l'ornière des résultats. ( Don't linger in the rut of success )

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and only love is real.

Au travail, le plus difficile, c'est d'allumer la petite lampe du cerveau. Après, ça brûle tout seul.

Be careful the purpose doesn't destroy you.

His mild efforts at curiosity had been rebuffed--not with coldness but with her single-minded focus on her cases. And yet he could sense something deeply vulnerable about her. It was that part of her that spoke to his soul. He wasn't a ledge talker for nothing.

A world-class violinist was once asked how she came to master her instrument. "Planned neglect," she responded. When she began violin, she explained, other necessary work came before practicing violin. It wasn't until she decided to neglect everything else each day until after violin practice that she started becoming a virtuoso.

Second, one must intend and decide to actually do something to bring the vision into reality. A vision without intention is merely a daydream.

No, I'm in work mode, and I'm not about to walk around, greeting clients, potential sponsors, and taking care of business with buffalo sauce dripping from my lips.

Don't dwell on reality it will only keep you from greatness.

I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of the human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it.