Quotes About Focus

When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don't really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.

Nothing neutralizes the redemptive potential of a church faster than trying to be all things to all people. It is impossible for any one church to do it all.

If a goal is really important to me, I discipline myself in order to achieve it.

Effective leaders are always monitoring vision leakage.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created. It's a lifestyle that allows us, when our heads hit the pillow at night, to reflect with gratitude that our day was well invested and the varied responsibilities of our

Life is simpler when we have only one agenda to meet: God's.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created. It's a lifestyle that allows us, when our heads hit the pillow at night, to reflect with gratitude that our day was well invested and the varied responsibilities of our lives are in order. If

Don't allow the other demands of your day to overshadow your intimate time with God.

It has demanded more of me than I thought I had in me to give. But pursuing my passion and using my spiritual gifts in my sweet spot is tremendously simplifying. I have clarity. There's no confusion, no "what if" questions that haunt me.

Look for this when you're not concentrating on how rattled Karl Malone was. 5.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

Self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

My Hero Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.

Just pour the tea, just look into the eye of the flower, just sing the song— one thing at a time and

Now I sit down at the desk, ready to begin. I am entirely pure: nothing but a skeleton at a typewriter. I should mention that sometimes I leave my penis on. I find it difficult to ignore the temptation. Then I am a skeleton with a penis at a typewriter.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Greatness doesn't happen by chance, nor does it occur in a vacuum. Greatness comes from, first, a passion for what you do; and second, a clear understanding of what you can and want to be best at.

Somewhere else in the world, someone is practicing while you're not, and when you meet him, he'll beat you.