Quotes about Focus

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off whatever it is that appears to be unanswered and focus on the Son.

He who whets his steel, whets his courage.