Quotes About Focus

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

Don't start arguments. They are futile and take us away from our purpose. As Yeats noted, your important arguments are with yourself. If you don't agree with me, don't listen. Think about something else.

the right way to discuss IT performance and value is to focus on IT's contributions to business performance and business outcomes, and not on the performance of IT's machines.

In order for the psychic capacity to work, you must be able to still the interfering thoughts of your conscious mind and turn inwardly. It is very important for you to be able to let go of your restless thoughts, your hopes, dreams, desires, and frustrations. Ideally, when the mind is completely stilled, you should be in such an objective, passive state of mind that you are no longer even conscious that you have a body - almost a prayerful attitude.

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

Restriction often enhances clarity.

This study, which we published in 2007, provided strong evidence that the brain's attention systems can be trained. Like any form of workout, from weight lifting to cycling to learning a second language, it causes an enduring change in the system that is engaged. In this case, that change is the ability to maintain laser-sharp concentration with less and less activity in the brain's attention circuit.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, "Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil."1

Simplicity The inward reality of single-hearted focus upon God and his kingdom, which results in an outward lifestyle of modesty, openness, and unpretentiousness and which disciplines our hunger for status, glamour, and luxury

The Covenant of Place gives us the gift of focus.

There is one major difference that has occurred in the past forty years that does indeed impinge upon the spiritual life. I can state it in one word: distraction. Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in contemporary culture.

our physical capacity for sustained attention is decreasing.

many things tempt our hearts to put them first and God second. We must root out the desire to worship these things and focus on the true God. The

Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.

There is one major difference that has occurred in the past forty years that does indeed impinge upon the spiritual life. I can state it in one word: distraction.

Fortunately, I'm good at ignoring a lot of what my brain does.

I hurt like I just climbed out of a cement mixer, and the shot that grazed my side burns like hell. But I don't have time to whine right now.

It would be simpler than dealing with this sideshow.

Si aprovechamos bien tan sólo el 20 % de nuestro tiempo, no nos quedaremos cortos.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all the unimportant opportunities. "The Apple Marketing Philosophy," 19771

The way to create something great is to create something simple.

Things that matter most Must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.