Quotes About Focus

It is to be expected that when one's thoughts lead so persistently to one place, one's feet will follow.

If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you? -Fr. Longère

Mandy! What's your goal in life? Visualize it! When you visualize, you materialize.

You're a serious one, aren't you?" I confirmed that I was and always would be: a serious infant, a serious child, a serious teenager, a serious student, a serious adult.

Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a single eye for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.

Do The Next Thing..

Worship is an act, and this takes discipline.

It was typical of Jim that, once sure of God's leading, he did not turn aside easily. The "leading" was to Ecuador, so every thought and action was bent in that direction. Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)

If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.

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Four: Too many wasteful 'synchronization' meetings interrupted the actual work.

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

Bob comes into the office with a smear of grease on his white shirt over the bulge of his beer gut, and he's talking nonstop about what's going on with the breakdown of the automatic testing machines. "Bob," I tell him, "forget about that for now.

Jonah said there was only one goal. Well, I don't see how that can be. We do a lot of things in the course of daily operations, and they're all important. Most of them anyway . . . or we wouldn't do them. What the hell, they all could be goals.

The mind has a way of protecting the heart, of turning one's gaze in a certain direction, away from what it should focus on. One

when you are aware you are dying, the path narrows, and there is room eventually for only one person—you, not distracted by anything else and therefore able to see all that couldn't be seen before. And that this can be such a great gift that you shiver inside at the taking of it.

We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more outwardly directed.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.