Focus Quotes

Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant?

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

The things we should focus on in any life shouldn't be what we've lost, but what we've gained

Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

My main focus is on becoming a new mom and giving the best of myself to my husband and growing baby.

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the subconscious focus of their entire lives, it often is repeated.

As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.

I need a focus group like I need a hole in my head.

We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.