Top 37 Focussed Quotes
#1. And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.
George Pattison
#2. A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt
#3. I'd been so focussed on enjoying Sarah the mother, that I'd barely let myself enjoy Sarah, the woman.
Christina Lauren
#4. The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
Peter Shilton
#5. Every Journey has it's own set of dark tunnels,diversions , exits and sources of lights. If we are not focussed enough, we will keep wandering and wandering in the dark tunnels.
Sail
#6. Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.
Thomas Merton
#7. For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what's the point of tears? I don't know. I've always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.
Saadat Hasan Manto
#8. Casting people as victims works very effectively to keep them powerless. By keeping them focussed on all the bad in their lives, it leaves them eaten up with resentment for an entire lifetime and prevents them from taking those first steps toward an exceptional life.
Genevieve Davis
#9. What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.
Sete Gibernau
#10. I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing.
Amit Abraham
#11. My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.
Paul Nurse
#12. I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.
Jonathan Ive
#13. I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
Karen Joy Fowler
#14. Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard ... maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.
Sam Altman
#15. don't allow your heart to play games with your head. Stay focussed and in the present. Otherwise, all you will do is scuttle your dreams.
Fahad Samar
#16. Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.
Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
#17. My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
Sally Pearson
#18. The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.
Peter Landesman
#19. You can't be focussed without really great communication
Sam Altman
#20. I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.
Tinie Tempah
#21. Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls 'the soul,' which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him . . .
Aldous Huxley
#22. I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market - which is a big enough challenge even for the established players - that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#23. Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
Bear Grylls
#24. The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company ... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
Sam Altman
#25. By the mid-nineteen-sixties, the Soviet state was no longer promising its citizens a utopian Communist future. Under Brezhnev, the state stopped working on a vision of the future and, instead, focussed on the past,
Anonymous
#26. I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.
Alison Moore
#27. Dont go searching for happiness in a man, find happiness first, then involve a man.
Odeyale Opeyemi
#28. If you are unhappy about something change it.
Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence.
Latorria Freeman
#30. The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.
Walter Lippmann
#31. There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.
Martin Schuster
#32. Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.
Brian Koslow
#33. Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.
Bell Hooks
#34. It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
Jane Kaczmarek
#35. There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
Edward Teller
#36. Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.
Sylvie Simmons
#37. Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.
Tracy K. Smith
