Focus Quotes

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential threat to U.S. interests.

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

Right now, in my mind, this is nothing but grip strength and focus.

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

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.

When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.

I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

It is a set of policies formulated between 15th and 19th streets by the U.S. Treasury, and World Bank. Countries should focus on stabilization, liberalization, privatization.

It just seems to me that from the Republican perspective, there's so much focus on how bad the other side is, as opposed to their running on their own trajectory within the issues.

When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.

I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.