Quotes About Focus

But why think about what was wrong when you could be thinking about what was right?

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history

But I now thought that this end [one's happiness] was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness[....] Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness along the way[....] Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

By redirecting the focus of our lives from families and communities to institutions and networks, we, in effect, anoint a machine our king.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Procrastinate later.

From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later.

Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

We're burnin' daylight.

These are the thinking zone, programming zone, and performance zone.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

You tend to get what you focus on. If you fear failure, you are focused on failure and that is what you get.

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm—thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.

Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might—as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.

He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.

Her eyes were upon him as if she had no interest in what she was saying.

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.