Quotes about Focus

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

So, too, David, after he has prayed the ways of God be made known to him so that he may walk in his truth, immediately adds, "Unite my heart to fear thy name" [Ps. 86:11; cf. Ps. 119:33]. By these words he means that even well-disposed persons have been subject to so many distractions that they readily vanish or fall away unless they are strengthened to persevere.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.