Focus Quotes
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.
Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.
When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.
We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together and continue to focus on building content.
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.
When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.
There is a lot of focus on that first rate move, and I'm not sure how important that is.
A lot of superhero stuff now looks great but it's so difficult to read if you don't know how to read comics. I deliberately focus on the story.
Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.
You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.
Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.
I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.
I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered.
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.
People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and that is our main focus.
Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.
I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.
But, at the end of the day, we want to have a show where we can focus on these individuals and their relationships with each other. That's really what the show is about.
Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.
My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.
There's so many people that I feel like as soon as that happens, they can really be and focus on what they want to do.
If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, you miss the things that could go right.
I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.
At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.
Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.
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.
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.