Quotes About Focus

Occasionally during prayer, when I catch myself daydreaming, I say to myself, "You're speaking with God! Pay attention!

I will recommend focusing on gratitude. This is not to dismiss or cover up the sadness. Rather, when we are sad, we tend to assume that there is no good at all in life. Focusing on gratitude helps to restore our whole vision.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

There ain't no time for foolishness now. You in it now. You got to stay in it.

Nihil est melius quam vita diligentissima.(Nothing is better than a most diligent life.)

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in a game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

keep your focus on aesthetics: notice Rist's use of the color red, but avoid making connections, actually just avoid using your head—lose yourself in her immersive installations instead.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

I drive. That's what I do. All I do.

Eu dirijo. É tudo o que eu faço. Não fico sentado enquanto você planeja a coisa ou a prepara. Você me diz onde começamos, em que direção devemos ir, para onde devemos seguir depois, em que horário. não me meto, não conheço ninguém, não ando armado. Eu dirijo.

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

at least ten writing sessions.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

I believe that it is better to know one book intimately that a hundred superficially

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially." ? Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity. Little things—a cricket on a stem, the veined branches on a leaf—are magnified, brought from the background in achingly clear focus.

it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," he began, "you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward." Bunyan's muckraker, he suggested, "typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing.

Get the books, and read and study them," he told a law student seeking advice two decades later. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.