Quotes About Focus

everything can work out fine if you just plant your feet on the ground and look straight ahead. Nothing is a tragedy unless you buy it a suit of clothes and give it a free meal.

Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing...

Steven Spielberg once said, which is that people will sit through twenty minutes of anything.

Douglas Preston

J. P. Morgan once said, "If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.

He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.

Effortless doesn't mean no effort; effortless means just enough effort to be vivid, to be present, to be here, to be now. To be bright. My teacher used to call this "effortless effort." We each need to find out for ourselves what this means. Too much effort and we get too tight; too little effort and we get dreamy. Somewhere in the middle is a state of vividness and clarity and inner brightness.

Do not attempt too much at once.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Plodding wins the race.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.

When I want to get anywhere, I usually do.

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses.

And suddenly, with a terrific shock, with that feeling as of blurring on a cinematograph screen before the picture comes to focus, Hercule Poirot realized that this artificially set scene had a point of reality...

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

Monsieur, pray confine yourself to the point.

All you need is a chair and a table and a typewriter and a bit of peace

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.