Focus Quotes

• My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Job
  • Focus

• My focus is matters of the heart and matters of the spirit, emotion and passion and stuff like that. But I think I've been getting better at being more specific about what it is I care about. Such as the welfare of refugees and solidarity between threatened populations.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Heart
  • Populations
  • Refugees

• Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful of what you focus on.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Law

• 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

• 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

• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Experience
  • Focus

• I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education

• 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

• Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Children
  • Art

• 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

• Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Focus

• Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible.

  

  Ezra G. Levin
  • Folks
  • Tea Party
  • Make Sure

• President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Focus
  • Red

• My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Focus
  • Partner

• It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Focus
  • Taken

• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Interesting
  • Focus
  • Tired

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Myself

• An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'

  

  Bob Corker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Focus

• 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

• It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Focus
  • Smile

• Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Focus

• 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

• Competitions, our preparation, our time and our focus are much different than most people.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

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