Quotes About Focus

It is not wise to mistake great effort for productive effort

God save you, dear reader, from an idée fixe, better a speck, a mote in the eye

En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

he seemed to be thinking at him.

Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

You waste your energy going up and down instead of going forward.' She continued to walk calmly beside Felix.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.

Give the present the gift of your full attention.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points

He was maxed out. He had no resources left to do anything else. That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.

Working really hard is what successful people do

I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing that fits the contours of his or her imagination. Obsessives lead us astray sometimes. Can't see the bigger picture. Serve not just the world's but also their own narrow interests. But I don't think we get progress or innovation or joy or beauty without obsessives.

Your unconscious, in the sense, was acting as a kind of mental valet. It was taking care of all the minor mental details in your life. It was keeping tabs on everything going on around you and making sure you were acting appropriately, while leaving you free to concentrate on the main problem at hand.

Para tener un CI alto, uno tiende a especializarse, a tener pensamientos profundos. A evitar toda banalidad.