Quotes About Focus

Wisdom is the focus of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.

They do not jostle one another; each proceeds in his path. They burst through the defenses, never breaking ranks.

At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.

Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things.

But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.