Quotes About Focus

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made out of.

a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Read much, but not many books!

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

A biblioteca foi um meio para eu me desenvolver pela constância do estudo que me consumia de uma a duas horas por dia. [...] A leitura era a única diversão que eu me permitia. Não perdia tempo em tabernas, com jogos ou qualquer outro tipo de futilidade.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands';

And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplish'd the first, proceeds to a second...

But investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it.

Het voornaamste probleem met die Tijdbesparingsobsessie ligt heel eenvoudig: tijd kun je niet besparen. Je kunt hem alleen besteden.

When you let the camera linger, when you crowd a scene with details, you are announcing that everything is important, and if you do this constantly, then you are also saying that everything is important, and when everything is important, nothing is important.

Regardless of your exact posture, the goal is to be focused on the meditation itself, not allowing any discomfort or distractions to pull your mental attention away from your focus on listening to the Holy Spirit's voice.

When I have been compell'd to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv'd my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble. [Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]

Everyone's shut off their minds So I'll turn on mine

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.