Quotes About Focus

In different ways each of us has a calling, is being summoned, to put our talents, passion, and insights into planetary well-being. Ecology is not an extracurricular activity; rather, it must be the focus of one's work, the central hours of one's day, however that is spent.

If the precious, limited hours of my day are used bit by bit in scanning information, I will have less and less time for the attentive, slow, good work of creativity, conversation, and connection that real people and real homes require.

If you have time for television but not for personal time with the Father, then you don't understand the value of your relationship with Him. If you spend hours on the Internet each week but rarely open your Bible, you are not committed to the honor of knowing and listening to Him.

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.

Busyness falsely promises productivity.

Bobby Abbott seemed to have lost attention after the first sentence.

The emphasis is always on what you should do, never on what you should stop doing.

it lies in the capacity to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your larger purpose in the world.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

She used the interview as an opportunity to be generous and supportive, while he focused on doing what he perceived to be his job.

You will never rise to your greatest potential by being all things to all people.

Competition might motivate you at first, urging you to expend more dollars and energy to win. But if competition leads you down the wrong path, you'll be stuck playing someone else's game.

Fascination is not the same as interest. It's a neurological state of intense focus, one that creates an irresistible feeling of engagement.

Now you need to "front-load" your value. Cut to the chase. Get to the point. Make it short and sweet. The pressure is on. It's almost as if people have developed collective ADD, swimming like a goldfish from one message to another, jumping from one email to the next.

It turned out that experienced meditators activated the parts of the brain that suppress interruptions and they were able to completely block out the beeps. They protected their own state of fascination.

Play the tennis that is in front of you, not the tennis you played yesterday or the tennis you hope to play tomorrow.

To maintain a positive attitude, a smart player lets missed shots and court errors go by the wayside.

The mind is powerful. Left to its own devices, it can be a huge source of distraction, pulling you away from being present and taking you down the mental corridors of your thoughts.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.

basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them