Quotes about Focus

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

Why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.