Quotes About Focus

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going

If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.

First, increase your water intake about an hour before the test, since water helps to fill up the veins, making them plumper and more easily accessible.

Pressure is a great motivator

Only this reality is real now, only this place is real, sitting in the lonely cell of your will...

And Jesus said unto him, 'No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.'

Your time is precious so this book is short and to the point.

he wants her to be thinking about him.

Ensuring that his career, education, or other goals are prioritized

What we focus on defines us, so if our focus is inward, on ourselves, we wind up defining for ourselves whether we are righteous or guilty. When we begin and end with us—with our self— we miss the heart of the gospel and never truly find the freedom for which we ache.

Quit looking at your inability. Nothing is impossible with God, and you will find a clear path ahead if you look at him instead.

I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

Just as it is hard for us, in our garden, to stop weeding, because there is always another weed there in front of us, it may be hard for her to stop grazing, because there are always a few more shoots of fresh grass just ahead of her.

If your eyeballs move, this means that you're thinking, or about to start thinking. If you don't want to be thinking at this particular moment, try to keep your eyeballs still.

Free yourself of your device, for at least certain hours of the day—or at the very least one hour. Learn to be alone, all alone, without people and without a device that is turned on. Learn to experience the purity of that kind of concentration. Develop focus, learn to focus intently on one thing, uninterrupted, for a long time.

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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.