Quotes About Focus

Trying to get through life without control over your attention is a little like trying to reach a destination with no control over your car.

The schedule was always tight, but he was never in a hurry. Not once, then or since, did I see him pressured into speeding up to get more done in the time available. By his example, he was constantly teaching what he knew from experience: the most effective way to accomplish a lot is to do one thing at a time and do it well.

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.

I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.

since any music increases stimulation, use it only when it seems to soothe you. Its purpose is to distract you. Sometimes you need to be distracted; at other times, you need to attend carefully.

As you begin to simplify your life, you're going to be making a lot of changes in the way you spend your time. If saying no is a problem for you, go back to your short list (#21) and keep it firmly in mind. Your objective will be to get to the point where you see that by turning down an invitation you're not saying no to someone else; rather you're saying yes! to what you really want to do.

Getting rid of the clutter is not about letting go of things that are meaningful to you. It's about letting go of the things that no longer contribute to your life so you have the time and the energy and the space for the things that do.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there's so little competition.

Bright Blue Day   SOMEHOW Maddie could not buckle down to work. She sharpened her pencil

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....

But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!

Eleanor Herman

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching your or critising you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you.

When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.

had always studied in disorder.