focus Quotes

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.