Focus Quotes

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Beginning
  • Healing

• 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

• When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Work
  • Focus

• Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.

  

  Katie Stevens
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Focus

• I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Career
  • Focus

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

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Focus
  • Flower

• Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Learning

• Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

  

  David Slade
  • Work
  • Focus

• Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Dream
  • Justice
  • Excellence

• I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Time
  • Team
  • Focus

• I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

  

  James Daly
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• I don't focus outside of myself to my guides. I always focus inside.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Focus
  • Inside
  • Guides

• I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Focus

• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Focus
  • Progress
  • Competition

• People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Job
  • High

• Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Consequences

• There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Focus

• Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Desire
  • Focus

• One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Rest

• There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

  

  Jim Davis
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

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