Quotes About Focus

The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.

It always amuses me how much time people have to sit there and focus their energy on slagging you off. If they spent a fraction of that time on passion on working on their own business... they might actually get somewhere in life!

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These

Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't.

Know what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. It'll suck you dry, like it is right now.

People that worry about where they're going next generally don't end up where they think they're going. I just worry about what I'm doing now and try to make it good. When you've got too much of a master plan, it's going to fail.

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen, or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected flaming ant epidemic," he told the crowd. "If we amplify everything, we hear nothing. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and perhaps eczema.

The point is, the way to speak to the universal is through the particular. The broad message might appear to speak to everyone, but really it speaks to no one deeply. When you focus on the particular, even though it seems counterintuitive, by communicating just one thing to just one person, you say everything to everyone.

You can't be any earthly good if your head is always in the heavens.

He waits every day with every answer we need, every comfort we crave, every affection we're desperate for, while we look everywhere else but at Him.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust of the road not taken. The world is an imperfect place. Everyone struggles. Successful people see trials as growth experiences, rather than stumbling blocks. You have everything you need for success. You're a beautiful young woman, and you're strong, and you have a clever mind. If you let anyone convince you otherwise, you steal from yourself.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

Our schedules are always filled with other things.

Do not let yesterday use up too much of today

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

Here's the thing. If you keep looking backward, all the obstacles you think are behind you are actually still ahead of you. If you're bumping across the same things over and over, it's a

Stop looking ahead, stop looking back. Stop... look around.

There are tons of things I could and probably should be doing for work right now. But at some point, you have to put it aside and get busy with the things that really matter.

often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.

So often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy.