Quotes about Focus

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Never confuse movement with action.

How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.