Kevin Costner Quotes

Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

Kevin Costner

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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Things
  • Learned

• I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Focus

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Worry
  • Books
  • Fan

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Health
  • Things

• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Things
  • Materials

• I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Passion
  • Things

• I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Things
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Want
  • Focus

• I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Want
  • Things
  • Better

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

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Know
  • Focus
  • Fame

• I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Private Life

• Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Think
  • Always
  • Things

• I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Matter
  • Mental

• A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Family
  • Done
  • Movie

• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Gratitude

• The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • Worry
  • Things
  • Stupid

• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Balance

• Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Things