Quotes about Focus
Do not trouble about those who are with you or against you, but take care that God be with you in everything you do.
— Thomas a Kempis
Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.
— Thomas a Kempis
Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.
— Thomas a Kempis
No more does one who is on a journey have to think at every step of his destination.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
— Max Lucado
Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.
— Joseph Wirthlin
The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The reason good managers strive for focus in their organizations is that processes and tasks can be readily aligned.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
— Viktor E. Frankl