Quotes About Focus

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view. at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother p177

Slow people are just paying close attention.

perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…

Frequently, I will read one or two selections from a devotional book as a means of tuning my heart before I open the Scripture. These books, written by human authors, should never take the place of the Word of God itself, but they can help us focus on spiritual matters and clear out any clutter that may be distracting to us.

Robert walked faster than usual, and I had trouble keeping up with him, but I did not hold him back. I was pleased at his urgency. I understood it, for when inspired one does not amble, one runs toward the source.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

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Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on detail, going back and forth several times during a standard painting session. This movement from big to small and its reverse keeps your right brain active. It also helps integrate parts of your image to the whole.

One Direction

And I ought to stop dreaming about it and start doing it. Right now.

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

Oh, that we would be as attentive to the Word as a newborn is to the milk.

The focus of contentment is Christ. The focus of discontent is the trouble.

Dedication and hardwork is a great combination to start with.

It is your own thought that takes you away from the joy of the moment.

He needed to find that hard place inside that would center him like the middle of a compass. Throughout his life, the needle would point in various directions, but he would have to know where he stood.

The principles of war are the same as those of a siege. Fire must be concentrated on one point, and as soon as the breach is made, the equilibrium is broken and the rest is nothing.

I see only the objective, the obstacles must give way.

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.

Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it.