Focus Quotes

In GE every day, there's an informal, unspoken personnel review—in the lunchroom, the hallways, and in every business meeting. That intense people focus—testing everyone in a myriad of environments—defines managing at GE. In the end, that's what GE is. We build great people, who then build great products and services.

Jack Welch
- People
- Great
- Business
I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.

Danielle Fishel

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

Betty Buckley
- Good
- Focus
When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.

Dan Schulman
- Time
- Help
- Focus
In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.

Dennis Hastert
- Good
- Long
- Mankind
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

Stephen Covey
- Children
- Energy
- Problem
To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

Elise Andrew
- Up
- Writing
- Reading
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.

Ursula K. Le Guin
- Writing
- Business
- Class