Quotes About Focus

The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

He was all that mattered to him.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to all the fascinations of flattery and light discourse.—These are nothing—and worse than nothing—snares and wiles of the tempter, to lure the thoughtless to their own destruction.

ali protivim se svakome tko se toliko posve?uje svome u?enju, radilo se o muškarcu ili ženi, da sve drugo izgubi iz vida. Osim pod nekim jedinstvenim okolnostima, smatram rigorozno i neprekidno u?enje gubitkom vremena te povredom kako uma, tako i tijela.

et, de plus, cela vous brouille les idées

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

Nothing else mattered.

The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life sings itself. But that kind of attention is the prize. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass--seeing things in such a narrow and darkly narcissistic way that it presents a colo-rectal theology, offering hope to no one.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place...