Quotes About Focus

Focus on your music and not technology.

We find our life not in our priorities but in his, not in our pursuits but in his purposes.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

The main thing on Caleb Walker's mind as he sat at the table in the kitchen that morning was tits.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.

Faith does not justify because of that which it is in itself, but because of that to which it is directed, in which it rests.

Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end - only at the end it becomes more obvious.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow.

Nation-watching would be simple if it could be like bird-watching.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

distract the attention of the workers from their real interests.

Never lift your foot till you come to the stile.