Quotes About Focus

God's purpose for your life cannot manifest in the midst of chaos. You can't reach the place you were destined to be if you're constantly getting sidetracked. You cannot reach your life purpose when everything in your life is undisciplined, distracted, and disordered.

If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.

Dissatisfaction can be a source of inspiration if you learn to control it.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I'm not addicted to reading. I can quit as soon as I finish the next chapter.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

It is the very mind itself That leads the mind astray; Of the mind, Do not be mindless.

If the mind congeals in one place and remains with one thing, it is like frozen water and is unable to be used freely: ice that can wash neither hands nor feet. When the mind is melted and is used like water, extending throughout the body, it can be sent wherever one wants to send it.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to shut up because no one's talking to you.

If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down.

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste energy thinking about it. what matters is where you are going.

ready to start pushing. What-if-maybe crap is for weak people. It belongs to the ones who don't have the strength to make actual situations go their way, so they have to hide away in daydreams where they can play at controlling what comes next. And that makes them even weaker.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

What are you working on?" Chris had asked. "Nothing," Zoe replied, her fingers freezing on the keyboard.

He who loses his head, loses,

It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.