Quotes about Focus

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

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.

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.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

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.

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.