Focus Quotes

• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Focus
  • Jesus

• I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Happy
  • Focus
  • Planning

• 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

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

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Focus
  • Flower

• We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Money
  • Together

• I just want to focus on the positive things in my life.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Positive

• The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Business
  • Running

• The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Focus
  • Quality

• People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • People
  • Community
  • Sex

• Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

  

  W Mitchell
  • Lost
  • Focus

• The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Hair

• I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Learning

• It was produced with very deep insight into the life of this performer. It?s the right tribute to who Liza is. People need to focus on the talent, not the tabloid headlines.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Life
  • Deep

• His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Opportunity
  • Desire
  • Assets

• I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Worry

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Singing

• In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Writing
  • Focus

• The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Power
  • Perception

• If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Work
  • Experience

• What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Great
  • Energy

• I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Focus
  • Entrepreneur

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