Quotes About Focus

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

I]f you want to learn kung fu, you must learn to break bricks with your head. If you want to be a fiction writer, you must learn to stare at a blank page with nothing but your name on the top without flinching, without weeping, without getting up to get a beer to fortify your faltering courage.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

Discovering what your goals are can be the toughest part of achieving them.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.

A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

A man is what he does with his attention.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.

Just checking a website or your phone for a moment can cause a series of internal triggers, and in no time you will lose the motivation and focus you had. This can be a big obstacle for students and employees alike.

Knowing that time is running down, and that you are working against the clock forces you to work with clarity and urgency. The alternative of working for an unspecified amount of time can lead to an unfocused kind of work, where the mind wanders and we don't apply ourselves as well as we might. Time boxing is a powerful tool, so use it regularly.

Time boxing is an excellent tool for stopping perfectionism in its tracks. It forces us to complete a task to a good standard and no more.

When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

Cresil leaned forward, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints of hate.

The mind is a theater. It cannot be allowed to go dark. It must be maintained.

One ignored the mundane at one's peril.