Top 24 Extreme Focus Quotes
#1. The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.
Joss Whedon
#2. Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't take them where they want to go.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#3. I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.
Noreena Hertz
#4. It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.
Sam Altman
#5. The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.
John Legend
#6. My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
Darren Shan
#7. Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.
Jaime Winstone
#8. Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.
Carter Heyward
#9. When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
George Soros
#12. What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
Haruki Murakami
#13. The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.
Bob Gill
#14. When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.
Keith Carter
#15. It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don't know how to do it.
Terry Goodkind
#16. Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
Paloma Faith
#17. Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too.
Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam
Stephanie Skeem
#18. If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#19. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
#20. Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
Denis Leary
#21. I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.
Nolan Bushnell
#22. Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you.
Amy Heckerling
#23. I'll come straight to the point. Last night, for the first time, I masturbated in a completely uninhibited way. I thought all the things I'd never dared to think, I took pleasure in things that before frightened or repelled me.
Paulo Coelho
#24. I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
Will Ferrell
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