Quotes About Focus

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

It was best to stay away from other writers and just do your work…

You have to get your mind right, and always look way down the road, not at your feet.

Discipline is not so much the way by which we are constrained, but the way we channel our energy in a particular direction.

Let me ask you, what are you planning to do with the rest of your days?

Pay attention: There will be an exam later.

It's amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

I gather Andy is still in full-on Office Flying Dutchman mode . . .)

concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing aluminum tube of intercontinental goodness into my imaginary mouth—it's a Boeing 777 or Airbus A330 and it's nearly two miles away, a distantly rational part of me realizes—

Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.

The secret lies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today... that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday's nightmares and unlocks tomorrow's dreams.

But on the stage I feel—I don't quite know how to say it. When I sing, it is as natural as breathing, and at that moment I have no care at all what others may think. And I forget that I have no family, because I'm wrapped up in my work. I bet you know what that feels like, to be all wrapped up in your work." "I do indeed," said Holmes. "It is the only reward one can be sure of.

Doing one thing at a time and giving oneself wholly to doing it is the most efficient way one can possibly live, because there's no blockage in the organism whatsoever. When we live and work in that way, we are extremely efficient without being rushed. Life is very smooth.

Practice is not a trimming on your life. Practice is the foundation. If that's not there nothing else will be there.

I didn't come here to make friends.

O GOD, enthroned in heaven, I long to have my eyes fixed on you as the psalmist did. Draw me to you, Lord, as I lift my eyes to your throne for your mercy and grace today. Keep me from distractions that would take my eyes from you and make my focus fuzzy. And give me attentiveness to your Holy Spirit's "signals" in my heart and life today.

Be so busy Improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.

Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE I have so much to do today. I can't possibly get it all done, so I'm not going to start.

6. Round down.

For proof, I present Tom Amberry, a retired podiatrist who lives in Southern California. In 1993, at the age of 71, Amberry set a Guinness World Record by sinking 2,750 consecutive free throws. That is not a typo