Quotes About Focus

It's David!" Ellie said, throwing up her arms and breaking Stevie's concentration on Hayes and his orbit. "David, David, David!" As David David David came into the yurt

He was aware that something odd was happening in his mind, that he was so swamped with adrenaline and champagne that he had developed an intense focus. The life-or-death moment brought forth the heaviest chemicals the body could produce.

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

We wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and clearer than rock crystal.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.

He would think of it later, he thought; one moves step by step and one must keep moving. For the moment, with an unnatural clarity, with a brutal simplification that made it almost easy, his consciousness contained nothing but one thought: It must not stop me. The sentence hung alone, with no past and no future. He did not think of what it was that must not stop him, or why this sentence was such a crucial absolute. It held him and he obeyed. He went step by step.

He saw the tension of the face, the speed of the walk, the drunken exhilaration of the body, drunk on the energy of sleepless nights, the proud lift of the head, the clear, steady, ruthless eyes, the eyes of a man who drove himself without pity toward that which he wanted.

An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He

No podía permitir que funcionara frenado por la advertencia: Cuidado. Mas despacio. Cautela. No trabajes a pleno rendimiento si no te lo exigen.

It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.

There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.

The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others. That is not the same thing as a productive or creative purpose.

man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

A hint of the smile remained in his features at all times, particularly when he listened; it was a look of good-natured amusement, as if he were swiftly and patiently discarding the irrelevant in the words he heard and going straight to the point a moment ahead of the speaker.

They never spoke of what they wished they might do in the future, they never wondered whether some mysterious omnipotence had favored them with some unknowable talent to achieve the things they wanted --- they spoke of what they would do.

gathered into the single will of pressure, that a shaft of steel

you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be sib born for something as well

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works

over time I've trained myself to take the long view, about how important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking.