Quotes about Focus

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

Now he too tried hard to think of something else (it was the only thing they had in common), so as to be able to go on making love to her.

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary.