Quotes About Focus

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket carefully

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

Just be aware that you reach a point of diminishing, or even negative, returns as the specifications get more and more detailed.

Let the computer do the repetitious, the mundane—it will do a better job of it than we would. We've got more important and more difficult things to do.

Even if there's a fire raging (deadline, release date, trade show demo, etc.), you don't want to be the first one to make a mess.

Tip 2 Think! About Your Work

Don't let entropy win.

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

When we practise "dog awareness", we notice that our mind is usually somewhere else. Try eating a meal and tasting every mouthful. Talk to a friend and hear every word. Listen to a song and hear every note. Take a walk and see every tree. Gradually we get better at

the distraction of business

it was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith

Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.

meditations as here offered, and when we think we have

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them. The Kingdom should be first every day, and all the day.

fix your desire on this one thing: to be filled with the Spirit of God.

We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

Focus can change literally everything.

Angus Stevenson