Quotes About Focus

Everytime you say yes to something that is unimportant, you are saying no to something that is important.

You can remember anything if you try hard enough.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

Think as if your life depended on it.

the Solve It step, think as if your life depended on it. While your life may not be at risk, your happiness is.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note.

Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends

Having a bottom line makes it easier to resist pressure and temptations of the moment.

His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet those same qualities exacted a toll.

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened

If you ignore little things, they become big problems.

But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

All of the valuable writing I have done in the last ten years has been done in the first twenty minutes after the first time I wanted to leave the room.

He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way.

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that "every hour misspent is lost forever" and that "future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.

Gates met with Harper and urged him to shed his outside activities.

No detail of design escaped John and Abby's exacting attention.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act. He brooded over problems and quietly matured plans over extended periods. Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith. Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism. He was like a projectile that, once launched, could never be stopped, never recalled, never diverted.

He was not a man to abandon a project that had received his blessing.

Segundo consta, foi Putnam que teria dado a seguinte instrução a seus homens, em Bunker Hill: "Não atirem antes de verem o branco dos olhos deles. E aí atirem baixo.

It is remarkable how much we all could do if we avoid hustling, and go along at an even pace and keep from attempting too much.