Focus Quotes

• The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Future
  • inspirational
  • Cutting

• Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Ego

• I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Why

• I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Respect
  • Control
  • Practice

• Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."

  

  Hal Elrod
  • People
  • Focus
  • inspirational

• 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
  • Experience
  • Focus
  • Theatre

• We know that the hope was that the focus of the buildings would remain artistic. We've tried, not believing we're able to assuage any of those hurt feelings, to embrace the spirit of the place by making art a focal part of our environment.

  

  Michael Rose Black Uhuru
  • Art
  • Embrace
  • Believing

• Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• 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
  • Life
  • Money
  • Relationships

• To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Audience

• I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Career
  • Focus

• When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Focus
  • Dog

• Focus on your strengths.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Focus
  • Strength

• The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Respect
  • Strange
  • Singular

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

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Simplicity
  • Mantras

• The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • Focus
  • Record
  • Lazy Guy

• When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • Hand
  • Focus

• A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you've got something, that's when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.

  

  Sean Maguire
  • Future
  • Movies
  • More

• The public education landscape is enriched by having many options - neighborhood public schools, magnet schools, community schools, schools that focus on career and technical education, and even charter schools.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Career
  • Education
  • Community

• It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • World
  • Focus
  • Page

• Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Focus

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