Samuel Johnson Quotes About Focus
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They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
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There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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