Top 100 In Focus Quotes
#1. When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
M. Russell Ballard
#2. In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.
Shakti Gawain
#4. 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
#5. You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.
Charlie Munger
#6. To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;
Donna Tartt
#7. the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive
Stanley Fish
#8. We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Joichi Ito
#9. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
Tim Cook
#10. I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.
Scott Ellis
#11. Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.
David Allen
#12. I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
Cherry Jones
#13. It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard
the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.
Toba Beta
#14. In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.
Joel Klein
#15. It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
Mike McCready
#16. Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
#17. I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
Zedd
#18. Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#19. The concern shouldn't be whether you're "thinking outside the box," the focus should be actually "understanding the box that you're in" and especially its location!
Wes Adamson
#20. If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
Yasmin Mogahed
#21. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
Brad Wenstrup
#22. In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.
Viola Davis
#23. If you do not know you have intrinsic value because of who you are and who you are meant to be, you will feel uncomfortable when you are not looking your best(in other's eyes) or if you are not wearing the latest fashion trend
Sunday Adelaja
#24. I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett
#25. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
#26. If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.
Nick Saban
#27. In other words, they believe it's wiser to focus more on increasing sales to a smaller percentage of your existing customers than to find new ones.
Seth Godin
#28. TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.
Blake Mycoskie
#29. In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
Harrison Ford
#30. A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
Eckhart Tolle
#31. Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
James Surowiecki
#32. Millions of people, in all walks of life and in every endeavor, create distractions and excuses for themselves by focusing on tools rather than on character. They'd rather, as Socrates warned, focus on what they have than on what they are.
Eric Greitens
#33. One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute.
Mike McCue
#34. I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
Carson McCullers
#35. Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker
#36. If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.
T.I.
#37. Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.13
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#38. Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that is the key
Karen Hackel
#39. My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
Philip E. Berger
#40. Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.
Terry Tempest Williams
#41. WHEN WE know what's essential in our lives, everything else is negotiable. What are some things you don't do? What things could you intentionally leave undone so that you can focus more deeply on the things you feel called to and passionate about?
Shauna Niequist
#42. We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results - or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#43. There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#44. We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,' but there's all kinds of stuff I can do.
Marlee Matlin
#45. Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.
Tom Coburn
#46. My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
Nicki Minaj
#47. GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#48. Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.
Matt Smay
#49. If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works
Barack Obama
#50. In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.
T.F. Hodge
#51. Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.
Robin Sharma
#52. Keep your focus on your passion in life and the things you enjoy doing. Youll get there. Trust me. I'm doing it.
Tim Samaras
#53. I guess I'm a hopeless case. No matter how much I try, his existence won't budge out of my mind. The only thing left for me to do is to focus on becoming a career woman, stay single for the rest of my life and go to my grave clutching a photo of his in my hand.
Kaoru Tada
#54. In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
Joshua Waitzkin
#55. One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins
#56. Where is your focus today?
If another person is in your focus and they are responsible for every moment of your joy, you will always end up miserable.
Patience Johnson
#57. Everyone needs peace of mind, inner-happiness and joyful relationships but most people don't prioritize these. Do you set goals or invest in learning to achieve these?
If you focus only on career, social and financial goals then you will never be fulfilled or fully successful!
Maddy Malhotra
#58. There are a lot of great inventors and improvers in the world. But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can focus relentlessly on a tiny number of things. In other words, to soar, we need to simplify.
Shane Snow
#59. Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.
Cassie Scerbo
#60. Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don't allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
Tavis Smiley
#61. In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing
Dave Pelzer
#62. what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore - plays in defining the quality of our life.
Cal Newport
#63. Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.
Anne H. Janzer
#64. Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing ... chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.
Ellen DeGeneres
#65. Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.
Lanny Bassham
#66. We mistakenly imagine we want 'happiness,' when we tend to picture in vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged quality of intensity.
Tim Kreider
#67. There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus.
Deyth Banger
#68. I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.
Rickie Fowler
#69. If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.
Narendra Modi
#70. One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.
Ross Bleckner
#71. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results
Melanie Pinola
#72. I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.
Lynn Schusterman
#73. You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#74. when asking someone to make a judgment call in a volatile environment, consider withholding historical information so that he or she can focus on contextual information. More data isn't always better.
Anonymous
#75. I always encourage people in the early parts of their career to focus on writing. If you can communicate clearly, if you can articulate a thought, if you can write a great story, then you're going to be successful.
Steve Capus
#76. We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.
Elaine Pagels
#77. I focus on what's really important in life. Quality rather than appearance...ethics rather than rules...integrity rather than domination...knowledge rather than achievement...serenity rather than acquisitions.
Wayne Dyer
#78. Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.
Kelly E. Lindner
#79. We can attract almost anything by using our imagination. All we need to do is to hold the picture of desires/dreams in our mind and focus on it as it blends with emotions that are of higher vibrations.
Hina Hashmi
#80. I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#81. Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.
Steve Pavlina
#82. The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen.
Jillian Michaels
#83. Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems - this too shall pass, and about happiness - it is my constant companion.
Lamees Alhassar
#84. I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.
Jean Dujardin
#85. The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
Dee Dee Artner
#86. I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.
Shemar Moore
#87. If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.
Marketa Irglova
#88. 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
#89. The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
Dorothy Hamill
#90. That sounds really interesting. I'm working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project?
Kate White
#91. You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
Leon Krier
#92. Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.
Tim Scott
#93. Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
Winifred Gallagher
#94. I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
Reed Hastings
#95. One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
Michael Morpurgo
#96. Make it a point to get to the real point, though at some point in time you may not get the point; just keep your focus on the main point and you shall definitely score a point in the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
Nora Sakavic
#98. I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#99. When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.
Esther Hicks
#100. We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.
David J. Lieberman
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