Quotes About Focus

She was embarrassed at first, then placatory, and then she got down to business.

Take it wherever I was supposed to take it. The rest of the stuff, I'd get rid of it." "That's what I would do as well," I said. "Where would you

get. I was heading straight for

yards ahead of him, his gun in his right

Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

Clicked the cocking handle to the fire position and closed her hand around the grip.

SQUINTED through the

Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.

People see, but they don't look.

But we're not buying camels. So

presence. No

A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

front entrance, from about sixty yards on a diagonal

There was nothing in the fourth stack. Not even a possible. A hundred and sixty gone by. Neagley slid the final forty into place. Reacher watched Klopp. One card at a time, left thumb and index finger, held easy, not near and not far. Decent vision, with his glasses on. Genuine concentration. Not a bored blank stare or an impatient sneer. A calm focus. He was interrogating the photographs, one by one, point by point. Eyes, cheek bones, mouth. Yes or no. No

They train long and hard to make such eventualities very unlikely, even impossible.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

it's difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so

When a person is gripped by a fugue or idea you can't just busy him out of it, not for long anyway.

Studies show mental rehearsal helps weekend athletes sharpen their golf, their tennis, their running, whatever their favourite activity. Experts agree if you see the pictures, hear the sounds, and feel the movements of your body in your mind before you do the activity, the effect is powerful.

You should never ask What do you do for a living? What is your job?". You simply practice the following eight words. How do you spend most of your time?

Take long brisk strides wherever you walk at work and look like you have a mission to accomplish. Keep your destination in mind, an concentrate on what you will do when you get there. Look directed. Look determined. Look dynamic!

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years," and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who had just proudly described his work, "That's exactly what I mean about wasting your time.

Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.