Quotes About Focus

With effort, I brought my natural self-discipline to bear on each day, and each day calmed me further.

And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.

I myself have no objection to comfort so long as it does not interfere with more important activities.

all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.

She pushed yesterday, and everything in it, out of her mind, addressing herself, as the sensible should, wholly to the actual moment.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

life was one long distraction from the inevitable.

You have intellect, and courage, and command. Play your own game, and don't worry about what anyone else is doing. That is what's going to give you a shot at making it. Comparing yourself to anyone else will just drive you crazy.

One of the biggest challenges for a writer of nonfiction is to avoid using too much of his or her hard-won material. A great and enduring book isn't comprehensive; it is highly, even ruthlessly, selective, zeroing in on the most evocative and illustrative moments while dispensing with the clutter that might prevent the high points from resonating to maximum effect.

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.

She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.

Outside, the sun was shining. It was irrelevant. There was something Lise had to write down, again. What was it? I am a ( ) person.

I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?

Writing is waiting. That's the whole of it. If you sit in your chair not doing anything else for long enough, the answer will come. You do have to be in your chair, though, ready to write it down.

I can't remember to be tempted.

I know there are other things to do, and we chose this. We had to.

Assim, quando coloca a Terra no centro do mapa, ou, mais especificamente, num ponto particular da Terra, o astrólogo está seguindo a lógica de que onde quer que existamos como indivíduos, o nosso xentro e o nosso foco estão no grande esquema das coisas.

O conhecimento da posição da Lua progredida e dos aspectos formados por Saturno em trânsito assinala qual é a 'opus' do momento presente. A Lua, tal como um refletor, mostra o foco, enquanto Saturno e os outros planetas descrevem as condições do tempo psicológicas.

Don't stop short of your goal