Quotes About Focus

Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.

I felt a wave of non-caring about to come over me, and I knew I couldn't let it. If I was going to follow my plan, such as it was, I needed to care. If I let myself not care, then there was no telling where I'd end up.

The point was to retrieve the clients alive and fuck everything else.

I told Mensah through the feed that I wouldn't speak aloud on the comm anymore. She tapped back an acknowledgment on the feed, and I heard her telling the others to get off my feed and my comm, that she was going to be the only one speaking to me so I wasn't distracted. Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans but I appreciated the thought.

They don't want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don't want facts to bother them.

I finally had to tell her that I had a list of things I needed to get done and it would go much faster if they would all stay in one place and shut up for a while and sleeping was the most efficient use of that time.

remembered the main reason I was doing this was to

You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don't want to get confused at the wrong moment.

Introverted people who balance their energy have perseverance and the ability to think independently, focus deeply, and work creatively.

Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Three P's: Personal Pacing, Priorities, and Parameters

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Codependent writers attempt to help people shift their focus and effort from other people to self. This merely exchanges one form of idolatry for another because whoever or whatever is the unbiblical focus of one's life is that person's idol.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

time spent sharpening a pencil is never wasted",

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first" Robert J. McKain, inspirational writer

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.

To Erasmus] I give you hearty praise and commendation on this further account-that you alone, in contrast with all others, have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not wearied me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like -trifles, rather than issues... you, and you alone have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot.

Begin with Christ. He came down to earth, lived among men, suffered, was crucified, and then He died, standing clearly before us, so that our hearts and eyes may fasten upon Him. Thus we shall be kept from climbing into heaven in a curious and futile search after the nature of God.

as the apostle says, Phil 3:13, it forgets the things that are behind and always stretches out to the things that are ahead.