Quotes About Focus

What I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go." We

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.

I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.

if you're thinking: 'Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?' — then you're going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you'll always have a path. There's always something to be done.

Of course it hurt," he said, taking a sip from the jug. "Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.

What's missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

he insisted that I move toward the center of people's lives

important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

By losing our focus on the small band of terrorists who had actually planned and carried out 9/11 and instead defining the threat as an open-ended, all-encompassing "War on Terror," we'd fallen into what I believed was a strategic trap—one that had elevated al-Qaeda's prestige, rationalized the Iraq invasion, alienated much of the Muslim world, and warped almost a decade of U.S. foreign policy.

I've trained myself to take the long view, about how important it is to stay focused on your goals rather than getting hung up on the daily ups and downs.

It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass.

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As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

Eyes can pierce a skull.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

regular Niagara of blond highlights was Crystal, sitting alone with her breakfast, gazing at it with such earnest focus, you'd think she was on a first date with that Pepsi and glazed doughnut.

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year.

A blown brain will reach for any sideshow to dodge the main event.

All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.