Quotes About Focus

Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, once cautioned, "Do not be so busy with the work of Christ (or anything else) that you have no strength left for praying. True prayer requires strength.

I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.

Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details.

but instead of focusing inwardly like a victim—What is going to happen to me?—the sergeant retained his warrior mindset and focused externally on stopping the threat.

However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.

The research is clear: getting children to focus on their performance can interfere with their ability to remember things about the challenging tasks they just worked on.67

you're so busy trying to deal with the implications of failing that you don't have the time and energy to do what it takes to succeed.

As a leader, you need to keep the main thing—the mission

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

I love to score runs rather than defending or leaving the ball. That is an important aspect of my batting: I don't want to waste balls in any form of the game.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

I feel anything done half heartedly is a waste.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for the crew - and keep the three hours to myself for thought.

I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.

I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.

If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I was missing out on anything. Ballet became my ultimate passion.

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.