Quotes about Focus

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

When its steamboat time you steamboat.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing

A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.