Quotes About Focus

Has my watch stopped?" she wrote. "No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don't look at them. Think of something else—anything else; think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

Solitude was no excuse for sloppiness.

Don't change the subject while I'm quoting Tennyson.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man, it is perhaps better to take the knee of the trouser. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.

Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.

No se fíe nunca de las impresiones generales, amigo mío, y concéntrese en los detalles.»

Ningún hombre carga su mente con asuntos pequeños, salvo que tenga algún buen motivo para hacerlo.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile.

genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains