Quotes About Focus

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, one word at a time.

Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources.

Thank God for tunnel vision. Thank God for selective perception. Because without it, we might as well all be in a Lovecraft story.

You don't worry about dropping the eggs until you're almost home.

Try not to think of a polar bear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, and you will see the cursed thing come to mind every minute.

When I was writing, I forgot to be sad. I forgot to worry about the future. I forgot where I was. I didn't know that could happen. I

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts

Beg your pardon, the gunslinger said. I was wool-gathering.

The most important things to remember about backstory are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. Stick to the parts that are, and don't get carried away with the rest. Life stories are best received in bars, and only then an hour or so before closing time, and if you are buying.

His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.

i'm not able to concentrate like others doing i'm lagging day by day ! when you got this in your mind this represents you are leading not lagging.

Don't look back you're not going that way.

It's so clear... there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine.

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