Focus Quotes
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Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.
John T. Chambers
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I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.
Busy Philipps
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
Maria Semple
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In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.
Brenda Shoshanna
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Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?
Dennis Moore
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You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'
Dennis Christopher
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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
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I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'
Eliza Coupe
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Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.
Douglas Brunt
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I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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The yoga pose helps me to calm down and focus when I need to.
Brianna Hildebrand
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
Oprah Winfrey
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When 'Real People' aired in 1979, we did OK in Los Angeles and New York. What kept that show from being canceled were the ratings from the middle of the country, and that's what kept us in the top five. I learned then from co-hosting that it was important to focus on the country between Los Angeles and New York.
Byron Allen
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
Lady Gaga
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
Zaha Hadid
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PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team, including states, parties, all schools of thought, all sections of society.
Piyush Goyal
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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
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Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.
Eddie Charles Jones
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Oprah Winfrey
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Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Mary Gaitskill
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And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
Martin Sheen
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And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
Jason Statham
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I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.
Usain Bolt