Intense Focus Quotes

#1. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#2. So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A company called Predictable???
Really???

Deyth Banger

#3. Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Winifred Gallagher

#4. The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

Barton Gellman

#5. Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.

Jeffrey Toobin

#6. I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Michael J. Fox

#7. My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

Karch Kiraly

#8. If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

Bill Gates

#9. I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

Ira Sachs

#10. Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

Katharine Towne

#11. I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

James Dyson

#12. When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.

Allan Dare Pearce

#13. The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation.

David J. Anderson

#14. The key [regarding sprinting] is to focus on the brief, intense, all-out aspect and refrain from a prolonged session that leads to exhaustion.

Mark Sisson

#15. Since you have a choice between life and death, why not choose life and live.

Carolyn Wells

#16. With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

Andre Holland

#17. I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Chelsea Handler

#18. I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#19. What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

Bill Maher

#20. The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Sam Altman

#21. At the core of that education is an intense focus on an all-important habit: willpower. Dozens of studies show that willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success.

Charles Duhigg

#22. Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

Edwin Land

#23. I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

Sarah Brightman

#24. There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Frank Howard Clark

#25. Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.

T.F. Hodge

#26. Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Mary Gaitskill

#27. 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