Quotes About Focus

No point stressing over what hasn't happened. Just work on what you can control now.

but Jill had told me numerous times that for Adrian, everything came back to Rose.

How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

You focus your attention on a single truth from the Bible and then continue to think about it throughout your day.

Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting.

Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.

When you committed your life to Christ, he moved into the center; but you must keep him there through worship.

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective.

La Biblia dice: «Así que no nos fijamos en lo visible sino en lo invisible, ya que lo que se ve es pasajero, mientras que lo que no se ve es eterno».

Never confuse activity with productivity.

I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." 14

The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.

The ultimate intuitions and insights will only approach one who lives in his work and remains there, and whoever considers them from afar gains no power over them.

Infosys, for instance, is very focused on which types of clients it will serve and which it will not. The company focuses on high-growth industry segments and on the "reference" clients within them.

I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out beforehand.

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Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.

I saw how the Bible isn't a book about how to get into heaven, it's a library of poems and letters and stories about bringing heaven to earth now, about this world becoming more and more the place it should be. There is very, very little in the Bible about what happens when you die. That's not what the writers were focused on. Their interest, again and again, is on how this world is arranged.

Great artists know that it isn't just about what you add; sometimes the most important work is knowing what to take away. Removing clutter, excess, all the superfluous elements—and finding out in the process what's been in there the whole time.

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

You start with your 1 and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. When you are constantly judging what you're doing, you aren't here. You aren't present. You are standing outside of your life, looking in, observing. The time for judgement will come at some point, but in the moment, you have only the 1. And then the 2. And then the 3...

Worry is lethal to thriving because it's a failure to be fully present. Worrying about something means you're there, not here

When we take ourselves too seriously it gets in the way of the thing that we are so seriously trying to do.