Focus Quotes

• I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Hand

• I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Time
  • Work
  • Morning

• When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Focus
  • Training

• 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

• It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Music
  • Focus

• 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

• To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it's much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things - because it actually is.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Focus
  • Communication

• I would hope that the future would have an international community that's not just bent on commerce, but that's focused on refugees, of all kinds and from all places. We don't know that won't happen in the U.S. someday. It literally could be a crisis from climate change, or anything. I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Kind

• One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nice

• Focus on you - your soul, spirit, blessing people with who you are, and following your heart's passions.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Heart
  • Soul

• In the long run, we must focus on what is the better good for mankind.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Long
  • Mankind

• I'd say my focus is on the season, my focus is on making the Colts the best team in the NFL. I'm completely engaged and have always been engaged, even when I was in rehab.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • Team
  • Focus

• It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Relationship
  • Focus
  • Ego

• I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Life
  • Work
  • Power

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Years

• I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that's what I'm going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.

  

  Emily Meade
  • Life
  • Time
  • Drama

• One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Church
  • Building
  • Failures

• In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Quality

• For many people in the music conservatory world, the message was always, Focus! 'You can't do everything; you really need to specialize.' And especially at an early age, I ignored this advice.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

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