Quotes About Focus

There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

exhausted people do not make the best decisions.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time.

Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.

One deep breath makes me ready for the next one and then the next one and with each deep breath I feel a little readier until I jump out of bed and pull up the shade

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.

Perhaps the best single thing to learn is to recognize a value trap when you're in it and work on that before you continue on the machine.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle.

I break open a lunch of Swiss cheese, pepperoni and crackers. I cut up the cheese and then the pepperoni in careful, neat slices. The silence allows you to do each thing right.

poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

As you read in the last chapter, your head movements will be SLOW. If you are used to turn your head left and right very quickly right now, BANISH this low status behavior from your life.

We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.

Mentre per qualcosa di molto più complesso, come la città in cui ci si trova, si vorrebbe sempre sapere esattamente quale particolare città sia. Questo distrae dall'essenziale.

He was a lawyer now and it had taken him a long time. It had taken him a long time because he had had to be a lawyer on his own terms and in his own way. But that was over. But maybe it had taken him too long. If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. In the end they just ask you those crappy little questions.

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. In the end they just ask you those crappy little questions.

You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.