Quotes About Focus

A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Be kind, truthful, and honest. Discipline your thoughts and actions. Concentrate on essentials and disregard nonessentials. Think about what is most important to you and focus your attention on those matters.

For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

Restraining sexual impulses takes energy, and so does creative work. If you pour energy into your art, you have less available to restrain your libido.

That's the result of hyperbolic discounting: We can ignore temptations when they're not immediately available, but once they're right in front of us we lose perspective and forget our distant goals.

First I make a list of priorities: one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three on down.

Genius is patience,

and here was a truly pleasant surprise—they also got better at other things. The students who did the study-discipline program reported doing physical workouts a bit more often and cutting down on impulsive spending. Those in the fitness and money-management programs said they studied more diligently. Exercising self-control in one area seemed to improve all areas of life.

To help his clients eliminate distractions, Acheson started off by having them write down everything that had their attention, large and small, professional and personal, distal and proximal, fuzzy and fussy. They didn't have to analyze or organize or schedule anything, but in each case they did have to identify the specific next action to be taken.

Write or nothing. It's the same principle as keeping order in a school. If you make the pupils behave, they will learn something just to keep from being bored. I find it works. Two very simple rules, a. you don't have to write. b. you can't do anything else. The rest comes of itself.

and to follow the Two-Minute Rule: If something will take less than two minutes, don't put it on a list. Get it out of the way immediately.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

If you goal is to achieve precision and concision, begin by pruning the big limbs. You can shake out the dead leaves later.

só temos o momento. Não percam o agora.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

In some deep, dark way we all become salacious around a disaster; our mouths water slightly when there's a real emergency. Hurricanes, typhoons, wars, shootings, epidemics; we're a little aroused because now we really have something to think about rather than our monotonous lives; something to take the focus away from our to-do list.

Being on automatic pilot, multitasking and using past or future thinking are all techniques for ensuring survival, but they can also be at the heart of our unhappiness.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

what about the material stuff that keeps us fed and housed? And what about our attention and our priorities? As we pray into our lifestyle, we encounter the issue of materialism. What is it that holds our attention—God or stuff? —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a Life with God

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. They have too much to take in, I suppose. Whereas people who cannot see (or see very little) have to take in only the essentials, whatever registers most tellingly on their remaining senses.

Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them.

There are better things to do with our time on this earth.