Quotes About Focus

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

What a paradox that is. The things you dislike the most succeed in taking up the majority of your mental time.

A strong intention is the single most important requirement to bring about growth and change, because intention provides the energy that motivates our continuing efforts.

Two or three times today, take a deep breath and enter the moment with mindful awareness.

It takes no more time to be mindful than mindless, and mindfulness is the way that you will taste freedom. Commit to doing one activity mindfully every day for the next month, in addition to the other daily practices.

Seed Thought Meditation is a form of mental martial arts. If we resist thoughts they will overpower us. But if we just step lightly out of their way, letting them come and go like birds flying overhead, we can use their energy to further focus our minds.

An old adage states that less is more.

Statio—stopping to collect our hearts and minds before we begin something new—is the sign that we know we are about to do the will of God for the world. We know that we must not go at it when we are scattered of heart.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I have come to believe that concentrated time, when it's needed - freely given and with a special purpose - can accomplish goals that even years of traditional treatment sometimes cannot. (185)

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

A strategic positioning, especially when it has a high degree of focus, is sometimes seen as carving out a "niche." The implication of that word is that the market opportunity is small. Although this may sometimes be the case, even focused competitors can be very large. In the case of Southwest, what initially looked like a narrow niche has revolutionized the airline industry.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

Move in silence & Let your success make all the noise

While we touch on both of these, our focus is on how we can strengthen our commitment and capacity to act, so that we can best play our part, whatever that may be, in the healing of our world.

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

FRETTING MAGNIFIES THE PROBLEM, BUT PRAYER MAGNIFIES GOD.

And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet.

You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. LUKE 10:41–42