Quotes About Focus

The more specific I am about the details I am concerned with as I pray, the better the results.

He calls us to gaze not on our brokenness but on our Healer. He says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" (Heb. 12:2). We move toward what we focus on.

With self-discipline, the focus remains "self," so we are already off to a bad start. Trying, striving, working harder may get us through the week, but it won't take us through the decades.

Ahora es cuando debes aprender a distinguir las cosas importantes de las que no lo son. En

This morning, she still seemed distant, but more in the manner of planning

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

The only perspective is to really be there.

Sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

The trance happens when you don't focus on anything.

You do the big things by doing the little things right.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character

Begin with the end in mind

In a foxhole, the past and, more important, the future do not exist. The only thing in the world that matters is the moment

mentor, Frederick the Great, had warned, "He who defends everything, defends nothing."6

If you're gonna play, play. Don't play!

If your mind and spirit are directed to your task, everything else will follow. Relax." "But focus," said Hermes. "Relaxation without focus leads to failure." "Focus without relaxation leads to failure just as surely," said Athena. "So concentrate . . ." said Perseus. "Exactly." ". . . but calmly?" "Concentrate calmly. You have it.

I cannot bear natural light when I'm writing.

an elipse is an elongated circle

The notion that the laws of nature had to be intentionally obeyed reflects the ancients' focus on why nature behaves as it does, rather than on how it behaves.

I have had a full and satisfying life. I believe that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn't precent them from doing and not regret those they can't do.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time, and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.