Quotes About Focus

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

But it was difficult, this living in real time only, and not diluting it by looking back or skipping forward. No wonder it's never really caught on with most people, I thought. It's just too hard.

Jesus lived a truly uncluttered life and died a focused, eternally fruitful death. How I long to follow His example.

Trying not to think about falling, she kept going up.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ."2

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

O presente é positivo, ocupemo-nos dele primeiro, que o futuro por sua vez virá.

Si el hombre conociera el porvenir descuidaría el presente.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

Sometimes fear isn't a bad thing. It keeps you alert and aware.

You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.

Don't get it right, get it written.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.

I felt Mr. Smith's pop bottle in my hand, and for a second I couldn't remember why I would be carrying such a thing. I know. I'm almost ashamed of it now—the fact that ten seconds with a boy had driven my mission from my mind. But I did look at it, and I did remember who I was—why I was there—and I knew it was time to forget about boys and trash cans and cats named Suzie; I remembered what was real and what was legend.

It's simple: just give the eyes something new to look at so that the mind doesn't truly see.

I know there are other couples around us, but they feel like distant blurs. Only Alexei is solid and sure. Between my tight dress and aching feet and swirling head, he may be the only thing keeping me steady.

Eddie had a strict "Do Not Disturb Unless Someone Is Bleeding" policy.

Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here." … "How did you…?" "Mymom is the chief operations officer for the CIA stationed in Europe," she tells me. "I pay attention." "I see that," I say.

There are few problems a Gallagher Girl can face that cannot be improved by a job. A task. A target.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.