Quotes About Focus

The less you believe you have to do, the more you achieve what you need to do.

The vision you use determines the results you obtain.

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

Si te centras en los momentos dolorosos, creas un pasado doloroso que arrastras al presente. Cuando te centras en los momentos felices, creas un pasado feliz y experimentas paz en el presente.

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced.

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here's the deal, here's the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it's done in the context of discipleship. Here's the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship

It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.11

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

But our desks were never meant to be our altars.

Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing. Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.

Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength. Can I use my mind to take it away?

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Action focussed on intent is better than action focussed on outcome.

Arjuna, ignore the onslaught of external stimuli and focus between your eyebrows, regulating inhalation and exhalation at the nostrils, to liberate yourself from fear, desire and anger, and discover me within you, I who receive and consume every offering of your yagnas.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, verses 27 to 29 (paraphrased).

Just sit in one place and pay attention to all that I throw light on. The more attention you pay, the more you will want to know.

If one believed that current caste privileges were the result of merits earned in past life, then one would not spend this life exhausting merit. One would instead focus on accumulating merit.

Action focused on intent is better than action focused on outcome.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

The Latin root of decide means "to cut off all possibility." So a person who actually made a true decision to accomplish something would have no alternative but to do what they decided.

Think of many things. Do one. — Portuguese saying

It's hard to think about nothing. I've tried it. You end up thinking about everything and getting stressed out. It's best to just think of one thing. A good thing.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.