Quotes About Focus

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.

When its steamboat time you steamboat

As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. **About the mind

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination are out of focus.

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Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles … by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain

At the end of half an hour Tom had a vague general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations.

One thing at a time, is my motto—and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only two pair and a jack.

If one keep to the things he knows, and not trouble about the things which he cannot be sure about, he will have the steadier mind for it.

Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Harry would take off his coat, remove his cravat, roll up his shirt-sleeves, give his curly hair the right touch before the glass, get out his book on engineering, his boxes of instruments, his drawing paper, his profile paper, open the book of logarithms, mix his India ink, sharpen his pencils, light a cigar, and sit down at the table to lay out a line, with the most grave notion that he was mastering the details of engineering.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on—information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

I must read. I must read. I must read.

the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

She kept watching the words.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.

Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you.

Nel corso degli anni ho visto tanti giovani che credono di correre gli uni contro gli altri. Non è così. È verso di me che corrono.

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope,...

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.