Quotes About Focus

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Work could cure almost anything

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Not the why but the what.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

I only like two other things; one is bad for my work and the other is over in half an hour or fifteen minutes. Sometimes less. Sometimes a good deal less.

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.

Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.

Think about after the war and when you will paint again. There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing. You can paint the sea better than anyone now if you will do it and not get mixed up in other things. Hang on good now to how you truly want to do it. You must hold hard to life to do it.

I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

The fish is calm and steady. I will eat it all and then I will be ready.