Focus Quotes

• I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Money
  • Interesting
  • Running

• We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Family
  • Control
  • Discipline

• The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Children
  • Wife

• We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

  

  William Labov
  • Different
  • Areas
  • Pairs

• I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Time
  • God
  • Power

• I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Sorrow

• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Focus
  • Conscious
  • Stream

• If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Guilty

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I think I'm a focus for international attention.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Thoughts

• One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Job
  • Focus

• When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Focus
  • Flower

• A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

  

  David Frum
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Psychology

• We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Long
  • Style
  • Story

• Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Focus

• Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
  • Why
  • Technology

• I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

  

  Betty White
  • Children
  • Career
  • Focus

• 'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

  

  Adam Green
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Me

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