Quotes About Focus

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

But the truth is, we find time for what's important to us.

We aren't designed by God to seek the image of others; we are designed to seek him. When we spend time on social media focusing on how well others present their lives, we are, to use one of my father's baseball analogies, taking our eye off the ball.

So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

Cuando no estoy concentrado en lo que le importa a Dios, mi corazón se desvía hacia las cosas de este mundo —más y más grande, mejores y más veloces—la

This is how it will defeat you, by distracting you - it is like life, you can live it or be continually distracted until you are surprised to discover that like smoke from a dead fire, it is gone.

Now discipline must dominate all else. Strength is mind over matter. A great quote from a great friend.

That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse

As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. "Don't seek my will in this matter. Seek me—and then you will know my will." Seeking God's will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

They rarely stopped while reading a piece to try to repair their confusion. They kept doggedly on until they finished the "assignment," even though they had no idea what they were reading.

We knew from the outset and in a terribly selfish way that our interest lay only in each other.

No quería dejar de hablar de amor para hablar de postres. Sólo quería dejar de hablar de amor para hacerlo.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.

the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

Some nonproductive cultures are starving for a vision or central focus; others are wasting the energy of their people by regularly changing and manipulating the direction of their focus. Most contemporary companies are suffering from an assault on their basic expectations. Like the desk clerk, we have collectively learned not to trust and have developed a kind of shared helplessness.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.