Quotes About Focus

The appeal of the theory was easy for me to appreciate, though; I too had devoted many an hour to examining flakes of gold through a microscope and can imagine how gratifying it would be to turn the fine-adjustment knob and see legible symbols come into focus.

Don't do that again" may well be the most potent jazz mantra, a guidepost for the musician who seeks the highest peaks of artistic transcendence.

I have to write in order to keep from playing. It's a simple formula. If I play I lose even if I win. If I write I win even if I lose.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

In short, you must learn to engage them, not just reprove them. Help them see the ways that they are trying to slake their souls' thirst with that which cannot satisfy. You must help your kids gain a clear focus on the cross of Christ.

The central focus of parenting is the gospel. You need to direct not simply the behavior of your children, but the attitudes of their hearts.

Keeping the gospel in focus, you see, is more than helping our children know forgiveness of sin through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.  In the gospel there is the promise of internal transformation and empowerment.

It's easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.

Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be?

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

It has been very good playing here at a high level in Spain, in La Liga, every week. I get to train and focus hard for the games and, for me, it has been very good.

If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I've got no attention span.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

My attention span is very short.