Quotes About Focus

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

I wonder about the enormous energy being devoted these days to restoring morality to the United States. Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. GEORGE MARSHALL

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.

The more we focus on tangential issues, the less effective we will be in addressing matters of true moral significance.

He dithered but never dallied.

she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. "It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it.

I saw his glance flick over me, like a horse trader assessing the value of a filly. Whenever I looked up the king's eyes were on me, whenever I looked away I was conscious of his stare still on my face. When

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men

Let him alone, he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear; do not therefore disturb him.

wherever the argument, like a wind, tends, thither must we go.

cuando más, mejor y más fácil­mente se produce es cuando cada persona realiza un solo trabajo de acuerdo con sus aptitudes, en el momento oportuno y sin ocuparse de nada más que de él.

attention to trifles is inconsistent with great genius of every kind

Researchers have found that the more people focus on their odds of winning, the less likely they'll go for it. But the more they focus on what they'll win if they succeed, the more likely they'll go for it.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10–20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity