Overfocus Quotes & Sayings

Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency, your divinity, the conviction that you were made for health, success, and happiness, and struggle vigorously to attain that which will help you to realize this condition. — Orison Swett Marden

I love to see my records broken, I really do, you get a chance to relive your life, the whole experience. — Don Hutson

Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again. — Mary Balogh

My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones that go with us to competitions. My mom was with me in Sochi. I am so lucky to be a part of the Thank You Mom program partnered with Puffs and P&G. — Meryl Davis

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. — Nigella Lawson

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people? — Alexander McCall Smith

I believe you have to live the songs. — Tammy Wynette

War teaches us honesty. Honesty with ourselves. For war is a merciless debunker; it debunks great and small alike....When bombs are crashing and fires raging, people are exactly what they are -- nothing more, nothing less. At such times you have the sensation of standing morally naked in public, and you will never be able to forget it, try as hard as you may. — Rulka Langer

I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. — Bob Monkhouse

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable. — H.L. Mencken

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative! — David Miliband

We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own. — Coco Chanel

For in order for capitalism to work
in order for it to produce a good and a stable society
the traditional Christian virtues are essential. — Antonin Scalia

Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing ... — Douglas Coupland

We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6 — Erich Maria Remarque

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley