Top 100 Quotes About Focus
#1. I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
Darren Johnson
#2. Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.
Peter Kline
#3. Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.
Denis Leary
#4. We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
John Barrasso
#5. I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there hipping today. My hips, other hips. I work with my hips a great deal. That is what I do. But not in a gay way.
Demetri Martin
#6. The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.
Mark Sanford
#7. The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.
Sidney Crosby
#8. I blinked and tried to focus on what he had just said. My heart slowed abruptly. Apparently he hadn't pulled me aside to ask me to be his one true love.
Inara Scott
#9. Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.
John Wood
#10. My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don't see things in the same way that I do.
Jennifer Hudson
#11. The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts.
Dave Barry
#12. Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.
Tim Tebow
#13. I love being in the studio. It's really great. I like it a lot. But of course, I like performing more. But when I'm in the studio mode, it's cool. I like to really focus on it.
Avril Lavigne
#14. When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. [ ... ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
Jim Thompson
#15. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty
#16. Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you're doing.
Leo Babauta
#17. We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about our bodies, but we need to focus on what we love - maybe it's a great smile, strong legs or curly hair?
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#18. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#19. Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.
Rodney Mullen
#20. You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
Elizabeth Warren
#21. When we take our focus off of our external selves, and others, God does His best work internally! JW
Evinda Lepins
#22. My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority
even above myself.
Jennifer Lopez
#23. Adam Gottbetter goes beyond the original usage of focus groups when they are used within communication studies to explore the effects of films and television programs.
Adam Gottbetter
#24. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.
Kay Warren
#25. Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.
Ralph Nader
#26. Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.
Rickson Gracie
#27. I shift my focus from trying to fix the other person and the situation to allowing God to reveal some tender truths to me.
Lysa TerKeurst
#28. Gossips are like ants" she caressed his head "the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don't look for them because if you do, you'll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.
S.A. David
#29. The RNC has made a concerted effort to work with their allies with a real focus on what we can do to equip candidates with the resources to win in 2014 and beyond. There isn't a week that goes by that I don't see someone from the RNC at our weekly coalition meeting. Keep up the good work.
Grover Norquist
#30. I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.
John Fairclough
#31. You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.
Rick Warren
#32. Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.
Joe Sacco
#33. If you will focus on meeting other people's needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.
Joel Osteen
#34. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
#35. According to the Archbishop and the Dalai Lama, when we see how little we really need - love and connection - then all the getting and grasping that we thought was so essential to our well-being takes its rightful place and no longer becomes the focus or the obsession of our lives. We
Dalai Lama XIV
#36. I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#37. My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.
Keith Belling
#38. I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
Pat Quinn
#39. It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'
Wayne Dyer
#40. To be a success, intensely focus on success oriented action not on roadblocks or obstacles.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
Zomick's Bakery
#42. Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.
Todd Rundgren
#43. Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.
Donald Tsang
#45. I'll miss you every day for the rest of my life. You're my heart and it'll go with you. I'll be here, and I'll hold your hand, and you focus on me, and when you leave me, you won't be alone. Don't be afraid. We won't be saying good-bye, baby. Just, 'til later.
T.A. Webb
#46. Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.
Joan Marques
#47. Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death
Peter Cochrane
#48. Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
Emily Giffin
#49. Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.
Brandon Spikes
#50. Sylvie's children really only came into focus for her when in isolation. Together, they were an unwieldy flock, singly they had character.
Kate Atkinson
#51. If the Republic of China, is going to move forward with their noble idea of making Sri Lanka a Shipping Hub, then the country must focus on eliminating corrupting bugs in the bed.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#52. August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
Henry Rollins
#53. No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.
Joel Osteen
#54. Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.
Siri Hustvedt
#55. Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.
Deepak Chopra
#57. We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.
RZA
#58. People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed. It's that simple.
Michael Lazerow
#59. High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.
Linda McQuaig
#60. My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.
Sheena Easton
#61. I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.
Wladimir Klitschko
#62. 'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.
Stephen Covey
#63. Focus on yourself
do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.
Lauren Weisberger
#64. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
#65. The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#66. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome.
T.D. Jakes
#67. Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.
Torrey Smith
#68. Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
Joanne Harris
#69. Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.
Erik Tomblin
#70. I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
Kevin Spacey
#71. I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
Michael K. Williams
#72. Many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it.
Mary Roach
#73. I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
Yani Tseng
#74. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.
Beverly S. Harless
#75. Your objective of being in love with each other will require both you and your spouse to focus your attention on the other's most important needs.
Willard F. Harley
#76. The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
Duane Michals
#77. Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.
Mohammad Marandi
#79. As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.
Mike Krzyzewski
#80. There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.
Mark Zuckerberg
#81. People will focus on procedures and not notice anything that isn't just part of the procedures
Daniel Simons
#82. I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much."
"I'm sorry," she said.
"Will it ever get better?"
The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I ... I don't know.
Richelle Mead
#84. To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.
Henna Inam
#85. Microresolutions focus on doing, not being. Being different follows, rather than precedes, deliberate action.
Caroline L. Arnold
#86. If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
Victoria Osteen
#87. Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.
Gretchen Rubin
#88. I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
Garrett Neff
#89. Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.
Alexandra Robbins
#90. Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith, tune out what you see before you, what other people tell you, and focus on what you know deep down inside your own heart.
Alyson Noel
#91. There is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is Imperfection. When you focus too much on one thing, you tend to neglect another.
Jason Salvino
#92. I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.
Haruki Murakami
#93. When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
Ann Voskamp
#94. I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
Danielle Fishel
#95. My life's goal is not trying to prove others wrong. My sole focus is on proving myself right."
~Elissa Gabrielle
Elissa Gabrielle
#96. I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.
Moby
#97. If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.
Suze Orman
#98. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.
Richard Carlson
#99. When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.
Charles Stanley
#100. Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be ... how you want to feel.
Denise Linn
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