Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Colin PowellTags: perception strategy cars driving focus
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
Elmore LeonardTags: writing creative-process focus
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo CoelhoTags: goals achievement focus
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
Joss WhedonTags: life understanding illusion focus
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
C.S. LewisTags: education focus concentration distractions
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
Eric MetaxasInstead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.
Leo BabautaTags: life inspiration focus
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren BuffettOnce out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.
Winifred GallagherTags: consciousness attention focus rationalism
Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects he philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed,--indeed, rapt--attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime.
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