Quotes About Focus

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Olga Rudge told a story about Wanda Landowska, the renowned harpsichordist. Landowska had been interrupted in mid-sentence by the arrival of friends and a fuss about tickets, and had come back after a quarter of an hour and continued her sentence from where she left off. 'Is it the working with different voices in the fugues etc. makes her able to keep all the threads in her hand separate and distinct?', Olga wondered, 'like in a way the cantos?

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Passion points to purpose.

Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.

I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.' Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

Toute pensée occupant uniquement notre esprit devient vraie pour nous et a tendance à se transformer en acte. - Any thought that occupies our mind becomes true for us and tends to turn into action.

Stop the rot or lose the plot.

Remember you goal is gold. -Aaron Jhinkoo

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

I worship at the altar of obstacle and intention.

The story is the important thing.

If you lose track of time, you lose track of your mind. You don't go crazy necessarily, but your thoughts wander. They go on permanent vacations.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Il vaut mieux chanter en pensant à Dieu que réciter le Coran en pensant à autre chose.

De meeste vrienden die eens een keertje met me meelopen laten me al na een paar kilometer in de steek. Ze krijgen de slappe lach van het lopen. Ik niet. Er valt voor mij niets te lachen. Hardlopen is voor mij een heel ernstige zaak. In Duitse klassieke muziek wordt ook niet veel gelachen, dus waarom tijdens het hardlopen wel?

Life is a journey. Don't be a passenger - get in the driver's seat and keep your eyes straight ahead.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Today, no matter where I'm going and no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I am wanting to see.