Quotes About Focus

you must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing!

My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.

Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.

univers venait tout à coup de s'élargir. Elle était le point lumineux où l'ensemble des choses convergeait

ÇoÄŸu giriÅŸimci, yaln?zca pirinç ve soya sosu ile beslenir ve bir yandan da iÄŸneyle kuyu kazarcas?na kendi iÅŸini kurar.

Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

Don't stop paying attention to a project because it gets boring.

Life is too short to deal with orifices.

Don't worry about what motivates you. What's important is that you are motivated.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

The night before the game I think about every pitch he might throw me, and then, after I've seen that pitch once the next day, my picture of that pitch is so strong, if he made any kind of mistake I would do some damage.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

Weder dem Vergangenen anheimfallen noch dem Zukünftigen. Es kommt darauf an, ganz gegenwärtig zu sein.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

ele pediu-me para rezar, mas eu só me lembrava da tabuada

I'd rather read than relax. I'd rather keep the mind engaged.

Certain problems cannot be solved if you are constantly entertained and distracted.

Sitting for an hour without reading material meant he had to think.

When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.

We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.

What we so admire and call single minded dedication was really obsessive self-involvement. What in that exactly is admirable?

This is how detecting works. You keep going even if what you're doing seems like a momentous waste of time and energy.