Hyperfocus Quotes & Sayings

The United States is excellent at breeding psychopaths - a country where we reward the individual with a hyperfocus on success at any cost. We reward narcissism - with our social networks and hideous reality television programs. We — Lisa Unger

Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play. — Stephen King

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s. — Kate Williams

and for the first time in his life he realised the whole horror of that loneliness to which, perhaps, all greatness is condemned. But to be forsaken is something very different from deliberately choosing blessed loneliness. How he longed, in those days, for the ideal friend who would thoroughly understand him, to whom he would be able to say all, and whom he imagined he had found at various periods in his life from his earliest youth onwards. Now, however, that the way he had chosen grew ever more perilous and steep, he found nobody who could follow him: he therefore created a perfect friend for himself in the ideal form of a majestic philosopher, and made this creation the preacher of his gospel to the world. Whether — Friedrich Nietzsche

All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me. — Craig Kelly

I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began. — Lev Grossman

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all. — Wendy Kaminer