Quotes About Focus

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Mind your discipline to read, read to discipline your mind.

I've had a profession for a number of years, and it has mastered me. A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it.

A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it.

You must choose, and choose aggressively. One of the most painful things about writing

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

When your brand is integrated into everything you do, it acts like a guardrail helping your team stay on target.

How often do we lose sight of what we're really after, insisting on all or nothing, when there is so much abundance wherever we are and so many opportunities that can help us on our way?

I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn't, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she became too conscious of the steps she was taking, did she fall.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place. Jesus' admonition to seek first the kingdom is central to what it means to build kingdom churches.

When the King and His kingdom are the focus, the church happens. When the church is the focus, the King and His kingdom get relegated to second place.

Don't confuse activity with action.

Make each day your masterpiece. —JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. — Annie Dillard, from "Living Like Weasels," Teaching a Stone to Talk (HarperCollins, New York, 2009, Kindle Edition)

I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

That chef was right: messy station equals messy mind.

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

three decisions that we all control each moment of our lives: what to focus on, what things mean, and what to do in spite of the challenges that may appear to limit us.

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.