Quotes About Focus

Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by overstimulating the mind (253).

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.

When we read, we are capable of taking in only about one key word and then four characters to the left and fifteen characters to the right at any one time.

And what was the principal implication of coupling? That law enforcement didn't need to be bigger; it needed to be more focused. If criminals operated overwhelmingly in a few concentrated hot spots, those crucial parts of the city should be more heavily policed than anywhere else, and the kinds of crime-fighting strategies used by police in those areas ought to be very different from those used in the vast stretches of the city with virtually no crime at all.

n good decision making, frugality matters; take a complex problem and reduce it to its simplest elements.

Our mind, faced with a life-threatening situation, drastically limits the range and amount of information that we have to deal with. Sound and memory and broader social understanding are sacrificed in favor of heightened awareness of the threat directly in front of us.

take control of the machinery of achievement, in other words—not just in sports but, as we

los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.

Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

Hardwork is aprison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

By making people think about jam, Wilson and Schooler turned them into jam idiots.

whose students are willing to concentrate and sit still long enough and focus on answering every single question in an endless questionnaire are the same countries whose students do the best job of solving math problems.

And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

The early Christians had the great advantage of believing that the world would soon come to an end. That was a sort of miracle in their favour because it prevented them occupying their minds with irrelevant matters.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.