Focus Quotes
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I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.
Alan Ball
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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
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Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.
Chris Squire
Cinema
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Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
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I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
Bill Gurley
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When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.
M. Russell Ballard
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The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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Good teams focus on the task at hand. They don't care what's happened the last 13 days, they worry about today and they worry about getting better. That's what good teams do.
Mike Zimmer
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Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
Jenny Agutter
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I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.
Allan McNish
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I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
Jeff Abbott
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I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.
Alice Smith
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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.
David Cassidy
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I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Demi Moore
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When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.
Lynn Fontanne
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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
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The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.
Jared Polis
