focus Quotes

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I really just like to be at a desk.

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.