Quotes About Focus

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.

Lord, you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you, do not you forget me.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing, and when I accepted that and found the way to do it, then I was able to write.

You must have discipline to have fun.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.