Quotes About Focus

Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.

It's easy. Make every second count.

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units, and don't waste even a minute.

Mark Twain tiene una frase maravillosa: "No hay nada más molesto que dos personas hablando cuando uno está ocupado interrumpiendo".

muy importante vivir en el hoy.

Are there things we can weed out that we don't need?

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Giving someone or something our entire attention, with no preconceived ideas or agendas whatever, is the essence of love.

Linear-active people, like Swedes, Swiss, Dutch and Germans, do one thing at a time, concentrate hard on that thing and do it within a scheduled time period. These people think that in this way they are more efficient and get more done. Multi-active people think they get more done their way. Let us look again at Sven and Antonio.

However, two nationalities in particular avoid jokes and other forms of humor during the actual business sessions. Germans find it out of place during negotiations. Business is serious and should be treated as such, without irrelevant stories or distractions. If you do not concentrate on the issue, you are not showing respect to your interlocutor.

He never wrote a book about the state, because it wasn't the center or focus of his analyses. That focus was rather the relationships among people as they go about producing their existence: relationships such as master-slave, lord-serf and employer-employee.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God's objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

The past does not exist. The future does not exist. One should concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The human mind has often been compared to a hyper-active chattering monkey who refuses to stop moving or shut up.

I meant to do my work today but . . .

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.