Focus Quotes

• It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Important
  • Focus

• I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

  

  Bob Iger
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Mother
  • Focus
  • Decision

• Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Important
  • Society
  • Focus

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

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• 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

• Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Focus

• We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Focus

• If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Happy
  • Focus
  • Skill

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Hope

• Free trade is an important component of our economy, but it also has to be fair. Too often, the needs of American workers are ignored while the interests of huge corporations are the focus of these trade deals.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Important
  • American
  • Free

• And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out Working on the record seems pointless now When the world ends who's gonna hear it?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Focus
  • Doubt

• I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Focus

• I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Feeling
  • Focus
  • Something

• If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Focus
  • Football

• We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Together
  • Focus
  • Perspective

• 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

• I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Like

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

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education

• As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up
  • Training
  • Discipline

• 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

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