Quotes About Focus

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Hãy cho tôi 6 gi? ?? ??n h? má»™t cái cây. Tôi s? dùng 4 gi? ??u tiên ?? mài rìu

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

For engineers, designers and other creative problem-solvers, a formal definition of the constraints within which they must work is essential to channel energies and expand creativity.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

Es mucho más probable que los hombres descubran métodos idóneos y expeditos para alcanzar cualquier objetivo cuando toda la atención de sus mentes está dirigida hacia ese único objetivo que cuando se disipa entre una gran variedad de cosas.

Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.

The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

Because when, previously, they had wrenched a book out of his hands, he had stared into space so disconcertingly it made the rest of us feel like putting a bag over his head. Sometimes, if he didn't have a book, to occupy Joseph's eyes I would plant a cereal-box side panel in front of him, and his eyes would slide over and attach to the words, as if they could not do anything but roam and float in the air until words and numbers anchored them back into our world.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Strengthening the mind is not done by making it move around as is done to strengthen the body, but by bringing the mind to a halt, bringing it to rest.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.