focus Quotes

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm writing a book, which I probably do two out of every three years, it's like having a second job. I squeeze in the hours when I can.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.