Top 100 Focus Time Quotes
#1. My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet.
Speed is my ally. Breathe. In and out. Focus. Time is my power.
Lori M. Lee
#2. Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you.
Christy Hall
#3. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
Patrick Lencioni
#4. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.
Brian Tracy
#5. I love to learn. But just going back into school because of what I do I'm so set in this path that I'm on right now and I'm so excited about it and I love doing it so much that I like to focus myself on one thing at a time.
Hayden Panettiere
#6. But I think the credit has to go to Geddy ... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
Alex Lifeson
#7. If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day.
Les Brown
#8. Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.
Reinhard Bendix
#9. I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.
Dara Torres
#10. We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.
Yo Gotti
#11. Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.
Debora Spar
#12. You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
Dick Cheney
#13. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#14. When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
Dee Dee Artner
#15. Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.
Saulo Ribeiro
#17. Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.
Jim Butcher
#18. At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
Tony Robbins
#19. I have read more about Oprah Winfrey's ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren't spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey's ass.
Caitlin Moran
#20. Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes ... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet.
Hans-Peter Durr
#21. To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.
Debasish Mridha
#22. It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
Lars Peter Hansen
#23. Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.
Arjuna Mahendran
#24. For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work
Hilary Kornblith
#25. Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#26. I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it ... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.
Michael Sheen
#27. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
Steven Galloway
#28. I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
Jodie Foster
#29. To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.
Paula Radcliffe
#30. Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
Barack Obama
#31. I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.
Bill Laswell
#32. I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.
Carolyn Murphy
#33. Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
Liya Kebede
#34. Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged adding to healthier open rates and ROI.
Karl Murray
#35. I try to focus more on the positive, but it's half the time I'm getting, "Oh you're only in the gym to take a picture," and it's like, "So what the f - k, I'm in here every day, I drove an hour just to take a picture?"
Khloe Kardashian
#36. You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
John Spence
#37. EBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
Jeff Jordan
#38. Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
#39. Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
DMX
#40. Movies come together and they fall apart. We try to focus on things we love to see. It is, they come together, they fall apart and they come together again and you're with them for a long long time.
Chris Henchy
#41. Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
Mia Hamm
#42. That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
Christina Milian
#43. Little decisions were made, every day. In this movie [The Hunger Games], we really focused on Cinna and we didn't get time to focus on the other stylist.
Nina Jacobson
#44. So at most companies, an unspoken compact emerges: It's okay to be ambitious, but if you play too rough, your peers will unite against you. On the other hand, if you focus on boosting your own department, rather than undermining your rival, you'll probably get taken care of over time.
Charles Duhigg
#45. Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.
Barack Obama
#46. My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
Lindsey Vonn
#47. Amateur musicians, for example, are more likely to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros are more likely to work through tedious exercises or focus on specific, difficult parts of pieces.
Joshua Foer
#48. Genetically, 99.9% of the makeup of all human beings is identical, but we spend most of our time focusing on our differences. It may now be time for us to focus on what binds us together, such as our shared concerns.
Wilford Welch
#49. It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.
Russ Feingold
#50. I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
John R. Allen
#51. Focus on the part and the whole at the same time.
Pearl Zhu
#52. we cannot focus on God and on ourselves and our presumed rights and privileges at the same time.
Marguerite Shuster
#53. I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#54. The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.
Lysa TerKeurst
#55. When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
Brian Tracy
#56. As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.
Megan Hilty
#57. Humans are funny. The more someone doesn't want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn't respect in him and eventually that's all she saw.
Kate McGahan
#58. In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.
Rickson Gracie
#59. One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.
Joe Biden
#60. I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
Patrick Kane
#62. You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
Gary Keller
#63. I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.
Nick Goepper
#64. You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.
Rob Gronkowski
#65. 'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.
Alex Graves
#66. Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.
Brian Andreas
#67. Every now and then, if I allow my mental focus to slip, I catch myself looking at her face and forgetting how to breathe. I guess these things take time to fade completely.
Melissa Keil
#68. We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?
Bruce Berkowitz
#69. For the first time he began to wonder whether he should jettison his transatlantic dream and settle for something more quotidian, perhaps focus his company on ship-to-shore communication. There was
Erik Larson
#70. I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#71. The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.
Stefano Langone
#72. Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.
Bill Rancic
#73. Nothing will change if you blame. Rather it will aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time blaming.
Maddy Malhotra
#74. So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.
Gabrielle Zevin
#75. Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
Karen Salmansohn
#76. Sometimes we are so upset about our meaningless worries that we keep losing focus of the goal all the time
Sunday Adelaja
#77. It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
Russell Simmons
#78. Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.
Jade Hassoune
#79. Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
Tom Ford
#80. It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.
Joan Blades
#81. He seems like a good guy, but we need to focus on finding Nia's killer, and then finish the theater. We don't have time for distractions. No men."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." Mel rolled her eyes.
"Inspiration before intercourse."
Callie chuckled. "I should put that on a T-shirt.
Lisa Kessler
#82. When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#83. To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.
Gwen Stefani
#84. Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.
Warren Buffett
#85. By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.
Sarah Hackley
#86. Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.
Harvey MacKay
#87. Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!
Victoria Addino
#88. Great motivators are visible at the front and lead by their actions. Hiding in your office or mysteriously traveling all the time on unknown missions are sure ways to cause the focus of your team to disperse.
Martin Zwilling
#89. I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.
Joe Eszterhas
#90. I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
Oliver Sacks
#91. I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
David Maraniss
#92. You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.
Catherine Martin
#94. If you want to save your time, learn to be focused on your purpose to the utmost.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant
Curtis Sittenfeld
#96. Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.
James Kerr
#97. Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.
Ren Ng
#98. Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.
Dee Dee Artner
#99. As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
Henry Cuellar
#100. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, then surgery felt like the opposite: the intense focus made the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. Two hours could feel like a minute.
Paul Kalanithi
