Quotes About Focus

I need to get back to the office. Those windows won't stare out themselves all afternoon.

I need to get back to the office. Those windows won't stare out themselves all afternoon.

When we are shame-based, we can only focus on our own ache.

In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one... Buchan, John. Salute to Adventurers (p. 172). Kindle Edition.

The best way to be rid of quaking knees is to keep a busy mind.

Let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe with certainty and consistency the things that are yet unseen. Let nothing that is on this side of eternal life get inside you.

Cesa, hijo mío, de oír las enseñanzas que te hacen divagar de las razones de sabiduría'.

Christian shook his head. "No, I will not. I have laid my hand to the plough and will not look back." (No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. – Luke 9:62)

las cosas terrenales, cuando se han apoderado de las mentes de los hombres, apartan bastante lejos sus corazones de Dios".

Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life! life! eternal life! [Luke 14:26] So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain. [Gen. 19:17]

The true investor . . . will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.

Nobody finishes well by accident.

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.

Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and his character is strengthened. That allows a leader to lead himself successfully.