Focus Quotes

• All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Mad

• Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Feeling
  • Focus
  • Something

• 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

• If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

  

  Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
  • People
  • Fate
  • Scary

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

  

  Sting The Police
  • Attention
  • Focus

• 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

• If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Focus

• What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Focus

• I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Stress

• 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

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

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Work
  • Focus

• Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Attention

• I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • Success
  • Focus

• You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Up
  • Control
  • Hand

• I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

  

  John Pistole
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Cutting

• However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Smart

• I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Relationship
  • Single
  • Romantic

• During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

  

  Brandon Jennings
  • Focus

• 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

• Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

  

  Paul Tagliabue
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Model

• We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Focus
  • Excellence

• Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Time
  • Beginning

• I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • World
  • Guy
  • Champion

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