A Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.
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A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.
My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.
My whole life I have been complaining
that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered
that my interruptions
were my work.
I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.
My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
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