Quotes About Focus

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

In calling me to deny myself, God is freeing me from my bondage to me. Self-focus never leads to happiness, it never produces contentment, and it never results in a satisfied heart.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

If complaint has the power to focus your vision, it can also twist and bend your perception of reality and the God who rules it.

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Change what you do, not how you think. You are what you do, your happiness is what you attend to, and you should attend to what makes you and those whom you care about happy.

There are so many stimuli vying for your attention—sounds, places, people, smells, and your own thoughts rattling around in your head. You only have so much attentional energy and it will make you happier, more efficient, and healthier if you are able to focus it properly.

The ways in which you can reallocate your attention to be happier are best understood from three separate but related perspectives: deciding, designing, and doing.

Our attention is attracted to what's new, remember, so using varied skills focuses our attention on them, thus making purpose more salient.

Distraction will, of course, interrupt attending to experiences; one survey reported

If the bath water is dirty, it can be thrown out without losing the baby!

I shut my eyes in order to see.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.

There are three things needed to be a great photographer. In this order. You and your keen eye, a great lens and a camera to make the shot.

We believe we're not called to follow signs and wonders but instead the signs and wonders follow us when the gospel is preached. We don't keep our eyes on the signs and wonders; we keep our eyes on Jesus.

One of the gifts of aging in recovery is the ability to ignore the noise and distractions of life. In long-term sobriety, people are able to focus on the qualitative aspects of their lives, like relationships, meaningful work and peace of mind, and let go of the neurotic pursuit for quantitative fulfillment, such as power, property and prestige.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving ìsingleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort.