Focus Quotes

• The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This approach helps to quell public concern, but it's a hugely inefficient way to deal with future risks.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Future
  • Unknown
  • Risks

• I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Important
  • Hate
  • Care

• My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.

  

  James McBride
  • Focus
  • Moving

• I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Good
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I am pleased with the response of investors towards Philips Lighting and the successful pricing of the I.P.O. This strategic milestone will allow Royal Philips to focus on the fast-growing health technology market.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Growing
  • Health
  • Technology

• At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.

  

  Nasim Pedrad
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it's great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I'm not.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Great
  • Focus

• Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Focus

• I believe a message of solidarity, and economic opportunity, and prosperity is going to win out, and that`s what the Democratic Party stands for, and that is where we`re going to have our focus.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Party

• Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Successful

• For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Focus
  • Criticism

• I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Culture
  • Team
  • Focus

• The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Lost
  • Eyes
  • Looking

• People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Up
  • Blow

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Focus

• I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Focus

• People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • Home
  • Me

• Without having these reliability problems we simply could go through the run plan every day as planned. We focussed on ourselves, not focussed on lap times and so on.

  

  Andreas Seidl
  • Focus
  • Planned
  • Reliability

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

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