Focus Quotes

• I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

  

  Dave Freudenthal
  • High
  • Focus
  • Tired

• The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Energy

• In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Real
  • Focus
  • Weird

• If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • World
  • Work
  • Country

• I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Voice

• When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.

  

  Carmen Marton
  • World
  • Good
  • Eyes

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Purpose

• It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Dark

• Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Choose
  • Strange

• We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

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

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Shoes

• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Events

• When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Thoughtful

• People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Job
  • Government

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • House
  • Attention
  • Easy

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