Quotes About Focus

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Our problem wasn't that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.