Quotes About Focus

It was always disconcerting to meet those who had become so obsessed with a single topic that they could not see their concerns in context.

Dr. Svensson had once counselled him to think of the things you're doing rather than the things you did.

She had always worked as hard as she could, at everything she did, and she simply did not understand how anybody could do otherwise. How could they sit there, as they did, and stare into the space in front of their desks when they could be adding up figures or checking the drivers' returns?

Of course you could not allow yourself to think too much about these issues. One had to get on and to attend to the day-to-day business of living.

Nada interessava ou comovia: Para tudo olhava e nada via.

Do you want a piece of advice from your old father? Not really. Don't look back so much or you'll get wiped out on the tree in front of you.

Gaming was one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing. But even more than that, It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.

Third, you will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. This is not the same as saying 'ignore your weaknesses.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.

When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.

As John Bruer describes in The Myth of the First Three Years, nature has developed three ways for you to learn as an adult: Continue to strengthen your existing synaptic connections (as happens when you perfect a talent with relevant skills and knowledge), keep losing more of your extraneous connections (as also happens when you focus on your talents and allow other connections to deteriorate), or develop a few more synaptic connections.

In the poetry of attention, poems are not problems.

it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

The alternative to discipline is disaster. VANCE HAVNER

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

Los beneficios Como hemos aprendido, el beneficio más importante de este pequeño plan es que nos da dirección y empuje. Sin importar cuán cansado, soñoliento o distraído estés al momento de orar, con este método sabrás cuáles cinco salmos debes considerar en cualquier día.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."[9]