Quotes About Focus

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. MARK TWAIN

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, "God is in the details." Delivering

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

As we dispose ourselves for union by turning from sin and from all inordinate attachments as best we can, and as we focus our lives on God, the Lord by degrees gives us graces in prayer such as Teresa has been describing, which help to bring about the transformation.

Which of us can live uprightly and perfectly even for one hour, an hour free from fruitless talk and careless work?17

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

We become what we think about all day long.

Organizations don't execute unless the right people, individually and collectively, focus on the right details at the right time.

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Be here now.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.