Focus Quotes

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

Bill Kristol, is the focus going to be now on Washington and a real consolidation in Washington now. Republicans in control of everything.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

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

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.