Quotes About Focus

El deseo debe preceder a la realización. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son más que débiles deseos.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works

With a new vision, I saw the things I must do. First, I

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.

They put an off button on the TV for a reason. Turn it off.

Government should do a few things, and do them right.

The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills any empty spaces in his thought, sneaks unexpected pleasures into his boredom, gives direction to his idle hours, again and again enlivens the stagnant waters of existence with a surging current.

Maigret never took notes. If he had a propelling pencil in his hand and a paper in front of him, it was only to make doodles that had no connection with the case.

Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead.

She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.

Start all over again and this time, concentrate. [to a young Ernest Hemingway]

Act so that there is no use in a center.

Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state

I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children - some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.

If you stay present and don't look too far ahead - or in the rearview mirror - everything will work out.

A lot of times, if you stay in the present and focus on getting the most out of yourself today, then things work out the way they're supposed to.

There are always myriad choices in life - some work out, some don't, and you just have to focus on the present.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.

I'm kind of a workaholic.

I am a workaholic, have always been.