#focus

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. ↗

— David Maraniss

#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

When dreams are not clear, the results are often as blurred. You won't be able to arrive at your desired destination if you are not certain of where you're going. You have to be able to see clearly and perfectly. ↗

— Jan Mckingley Hilado

#creative-mind #dreams #focus #vision #visualization

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good! ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#abstractly #am #annoys #call #chinese

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #been #course #critical #enough

To live a more balanced life, glance at the past, live in the present, and focus on the future. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#focus #future #past #present #life

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#frogs #productivity #procrastination

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#conflicts #focus #issues #more #personalities

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #fears #focus #perspective #suspense

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#concentration #focus #change

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. ↗

— Helen Hanson

#hard-work #inspiration #muse #inspirational