Quotes about Focus

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of your addiction.