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

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • 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

• The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Chance

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• 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

• I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret...I'm not overconfident, but very confident.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Play
  • Matter

• I think the truth is always interesting, but with politicians, you don't get to see much of that.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Truth
  • Interesting

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Why
  • Control

• 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
  • Things
  • Worry