Quotes about Focus
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.
— Robert Brault
I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.
— Robert Brault
Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.
— Robert Brault
I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.
— LM Montgomery
her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
— LM Montgomery
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
— Aesop
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
— Alain de Botton
Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here's the deal, here's the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just about going to disciple the nations and you know what happens... as you disciple them evangelism takes place, because it's done in the context of discipleship. Here's the issue: We have to reframe evangelism within the context of discipleship.
— Alan Hirsch
It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.
— Alan Hirsch