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Quotes About Focus

You're a genius," she said. "Hardly," he said. "I just show up and pay attention.
~ Stephen Hunter
When we pray in adoration, we stop focusing on ourselves and our storms, and start fixing our eyes on the only One who is fully able to handle any situation or request (2 Cor. 3:18).
~ Stephen Kendrick
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.
~ Stephen King
The verbalization that I use myself to organize my intended effort is, "next time I'm dreaming I want to remember to recognize I'm dreaming." The "when" and the "what" of the intended action must be clearly specified.
~ Stephen LaBerge
For example, if you have a face on the right side of the slide looking off to the right, the viewers will have a tendency to do the same—and thus be looking off-screen, rather than where you want them to focus when the next slide appears.
~ Stephen M. Kosslyn
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
~ Stephen MacKenna
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
~ Stephen MacKenna
wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.
~ Stephen Mitchell
If everything is mission, nothing is mission.
~ Stephen Neill
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Start with the end in mind.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Pray God our aim is straight and true and each arrow finds its mark.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
It does not do to hurry the archer, it makes him miss.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.
~ Stephen Richards
Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.
~ Stephen Richards
Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.
~ Stephen Richards
There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs.
~ Stephen Richards
Using your mind is a faster method to getting what you want. I mean, all you have to do is sit there. What could be easier?
~ Stephen Richards
Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome.
~ Stephen Richards
You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.
~ Stephen Richards
When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.
~ Stephen Richards
To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
~ Stephen Richards
The Jedi is a practitioner of mind mastery. He realizes that whatever they are experiencing, they are creating and that they can change their lives in an instant by changing their thoughts, their focus and the way they are observing and engaging the energy of the world around them and the people who they've invited into their lives to play whatever roles they've chosen them to play.
~ Stephen Richards