Quotes About Focus

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.

It's like I can hum a few bars but I have forgotten most of the words. I can't stand in line at the grocery and carry on a normal conversation if it gets much past the weather.

Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today--all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going--and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

We should always be in pursuit of simplicity, in whatever form it takes.

The toughest thing in life is not learning a bunch of potentially hypothetically useful stuff, but figuring out what the heck it is you want to do.

Reading self-help advice from other people, however well-intentioned, is no substitute for getting your own damn work done. The

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

We start with the customer and we work backward. We learn whatever skills we need to service the customer. We build whatever technology we need to service the customer.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.

When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

Simplicity is within your grasp.

Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Here's the thing about life, you get back what you put into it. Life is defined by what we choose to do with it, the things we commit to, and where we dedicate our time. Life rewards those who work harder, who care more, who give it their best, then give a little more.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

Why are you here?" Rob asked. "Because we have to play a sport; it's required," Truman replied. "Okay, so play it, don't just fuck around." "I'm not fucking around." "You're not making it hard." Truman didn't know what that meant. "If you go into something, you better make it hard. Otherwise what's the point?

thought precedes action.

The idea that we become what we think about has also been expressed as the Law of Dominant Thought.

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary Crowley