Quotes About Focus

No, I'm gonna get it. Just give me a second. I'm gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French. - He winks at me.

I wake up the next morning renewed. I am a girl with a plan. I'm just going to have to avoid Josh forever. It's as simple as that.

I keep my eyes trained straight ahead, but I can see him in my periphery.

I hated it when he played the guitar. He'd sit there, strumming, halfway paying attention, only halfway present. He'd hum to himself, and he was someplace else. We'd be watching TV, or playing cards, and he'd be strumming the guitar. Or he'd be in his room, practicing. For what, I didn't know. All I knew was that it took time away from us.

Why bother doing something if you're only going to do it halfway?

And you need to know what you're saying no to.

I'm watching her super carefully

Every time I have to take my eyes away from the road, even for a second, I feel so much panic in my chest.

For me, it was almost like winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered.

No, I was looking at you.

And you've been a big help, but I think there are other things you could be focusing on that are more worthy of your time.

What Simone Weil said: Attention without object is a supreme form of prayer.

I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice." The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

In some Zen monasteries, gossip is defined as talking about anything not directly in one's gaze.

What the Yoga People say: None of this is banal, if only you would attend to it.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

Many think the steering wheel is nothing more than a handy place to rest a laptop. Going round a corner at more than 2mph would cause your bucket of coffee to fall over. So why bother?

Stick to breathing. It's the only thing you're any good at.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

make His purpose your purpose.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6: 34).

To mortify sin we must focus on its true nature. So often we are troubled with a persistent sin only because it disturbs our peace and makes us feel guilty. We need to focus on it as an act of rebellion against God