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

• 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

• We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Brain

• The fans will talk about whatever. But when you're not doing your best, you're losing, you can't let all that get to your head. You focus and try to play hard. The fans, they will respect you for that.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Respect
  • Focus

• There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Deep
  • Innovation

• We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Focus

• It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • High
  • Focus

• When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • People
  • Different
  • Business

• If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Great
  • Experience
  • 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

• The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Real
  • Experience
  • America

• 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

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• There are as many ways to eat a vegan diet as there are people who discover it. Just about any way you do it, provided you focus on unprocessed foods, include vitamin B

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Focus
  • Vegan

• 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

• My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.

  

  Keith Belling
  • Focus
  • Meaningful

• If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Focus

• I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Coaching

• The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Quality

• We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Money
  • Focus
  • Effort

• 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

• 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

• In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.

  

  Jed S. Rakoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

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