Quotes About Focus

If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I care as much as I can, but I don't spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

bent ostentatiously to her work.

I don't require all your attention but I do need some of it. (Wicked)

Love is wicked distraction.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

One of the biggest wastes of time is doing something well that didn't need to be done at all.

Just because we're busy doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

It turns out that stating a problem clearly often suggests its solution. p 32

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

One study estimated that for every hour of interrupted sleep during the previous night, people wasted 8.4 minutes in online puttering

Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

Use counters for activities, not for storage.

Remind the Obliger that saying no allows him or her to say yes to work that's more important

Also, there was a Princeton study that found that visual clutter reduces your ability to focus and process information.

One of the biggest wastes of time is doing something well that didn't need to be done at all.

When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered.

By doing a little bit each day you can get a lot accomplished

Just taking one drifting step can you set you in a course that's very hard to stop.