Focus Quotes

• Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Action
  • Reading
  • Forever

• I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.

  

  David Ige
  • School
  • Education
  • Stop

• 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 was a pain most of my childhood, always mad at the things I didn't have. Things shifted drastically in my 20s when I started putting an emphasis on gratitude. Focus on the good you do have, not the things you lack.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Childhood

• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Focus
  • Summer

• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Movie

• 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

• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Good
  • School
  • Player

• 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

• People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

  

  Fred Funk
  • People
  • Hate
  • Attention

• The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Small

• I definitely think when I'm feeling super down or having tantrums or not able to participate in any activities, I have to control myself. I have to tell myself, 'No, focus, focus, focus, do this, do this, do this.' Instead of shutting down, I encourage myself to think positively and move towards the light.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Control

• I’m always interested in finding ways to innovate … . It’s a blend; it’s not a point focus.

  

  Paul Allen
  • Focus

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

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Education

• A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Family
  • Done
  • Movie

• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Space
  • Focus
  • Design

• 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

• It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Experience

• The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Focus

• Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Past
  • Focus

• You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Mind
  • Breath
  • Strenght

• I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Children
  • Future
  • Focus

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

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Important
  • Society
  • Focus

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