Focus Quotes

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

I don't want any woman to think that I don't have empathy and deep care for all women's body issues. I just want to make sure that we don't only focus on the most palatable ones.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

I believe the more prepared you are physically, the better prepared you are mentally and the more you can then cope. Mentally you have to focus on the job in hand 100%.

As you focus on calming your breathing, your anxiety will quickly reduce and you will start to think clearly again. This is especially important if you feel a panic attack coming on.

I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.

The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.

The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

I think it is fair to say that the end goal might be a demand yet your focus when building brands should rarely focus on this objective.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer