Quotes About Focus

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into programming because we prefer to deeply focus on sterile minutia, juggle lots of concepts simultaneously, and in general prove to ourselves that we have brains the size of a planet, all while not having to interact with the messy complexities of other people.

If you are tired or distracted, do not code.

Building a project should be a single trivial operation.

FUNCTIONS SHOULD DO ONE THING. THEY SHOULD DO IT WELL. THEY SHOULD DO IT ONLY.

the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.

God is in the details, said the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe.

WHICH LINES DO YOU DRAW, AND WHEN DO YOU DRAW THEM? You draw lines between things that matter and things that don't. The GUI doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the GUI, so there should be a line between them. The database doesn't matter to the business rules, so there should be a line between them.

Resisting premature abstraction is as important as abstraction itself.

Clean code is focused. Each function, each class, each module exposes a single-minded attitude that remains entirely undistracted, and unpolluted, by the surrounding details.

Every software system provides two different values to the stakeholders: behavior and structure. Software developers are responsible for ensuring that both those values remain high. Unfortunately, they often focus on one to the exclusion of the other.

When you are working on a problem, you sometimes get so close to it that you can't see all the options. You miss elegant solutions because the creative part of your mind is suppressed by the intensity of your focus. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to go home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, and then wake up the next morning and take a shower.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.