Quotes About Focus

Those focused on the future don't complain about their past; those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.

Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Christian advocacy always goes wrong when we become the focus of our efforts, rather than the Lord. For when we are the focus, we subtly come to believe that God is no more certain than our defense of him. Argue and defend God well, and the world of faith appears unshakable. Defend him badly, and doubts creep in or crash down on top of us.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

I learned to read silently too. That's why I could finish one book after another without getting tired.

Just as in other aspects of your life, setting financial goals is a tried-and-true way to reach those goals.

Make decisions that advance your objectives.

Millions wish for financial freedom, but only those that make it a priority have millions.

Nobody must be distracted in this fight for life, because out of all values, the most important one is life itself.

Self-discipline is hard, and the more projects you have on your plate, the more your willpower will have to stretch.

Setting goals can help you gain both short and long term achievements.

The only way to become a doer is to find something worth doing.

So little time and so little to do.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .