Quotes About Focus

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

A God-focused attitude is positive and directs you to better the lives of those you love while giving God the glory.

We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.

When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in; put second things first and we lose both first and second things.3

Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God's plan and purposes for your life.

Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration.

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you

And you have treasures hidden within you—extraordinary treasures—and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?

The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment.