Quotes About Focus

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees-to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Semplicità significa sottrarre l'ovvio e aggiungere il significativo.

Perhaps most of us spend so much of our time thinking about the past or planning for the future that there is a very real danger that we never fully come to terms with the present.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

The human eye doesn't look above its own height.

There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

Your intuition needs a clear, open mind. It won't work if it's competing with other distracting thoughts, fears, or prejudices of your own past experiences.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say),

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

What happiness to work a lot and forget everything!

She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.

quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Lizbet is so busy that hours and even days go by when she forgets to be on the lookout for Shelly Carpenter.

She chastised herself and considered calling back, but in the end she had the good sense to return to reading Stephen Crane.