Focus Quotes

• Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Everyday

• I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Breathe

• My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Important
  • Free
  • Focus

• I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Focus

• When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Pain
  • Focus

• We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • World
  • Happy
  • Chaos

• A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • Focus
  • Christmas

• Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Focus
  • Singing

• The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Focus

• I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Happy
  • Focus

• When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Long
  • Health
  • Medical

• I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Team
  • Sport

• I believe that as we face unparalleled prosperity in some quarters and deep impoverishment in others, it is the willingness of the next generation to bridge the gap between the two that will return us to our sense of purpose and focus.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Deep

• Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

  

  Christopher Abbott
  • Important
  • Live
  • Money

• At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Focus

• 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

• It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Materials

• People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.

  

  Arash Ferdowsi
  • Good
  • High
  • Quality

• Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • People
  • Work
  • Independent

• I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Different
  • College
  • Comedy

• My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Focus
  • Diversity

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