Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
A Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer. Credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Being Better
Being Disciplined
Focus
The mastery of the art must be a matter of ultimate concern; there must be nothing else in the world more important than the art.
Erich Fromm
German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.
Being Disciplined
Focus
A genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
Being Disciplined
Creativity
Focus
Inspiration
It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.
John Cleese
An English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python.