Focus Quotes

• When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Words

• It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

  

  Bob Nelson
  • Focus

• Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • People
  • Focus

• When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.

  

  Chandra West
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Parents

• If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Humanity
  • Gains

• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Changes
  • Media
  • Point Of View

• We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

  

  Arash Ferdowsi
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  

  William Pollard
  • Focus
  • Mistake
  • Kitchen

• I know the people expect the best - good. The people expect we'll play fantastic football and win games - good. I can't control that. I accept that, and I just focus on my players in the games.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

  

  David Bailey
  • People
  • Focus
  • Mad

• The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Focus
  • Certain
  • Albums

• I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Focus
  • Brain

• I kept saying that I want to be a singer, singer, singer. Someone told me, "Noooo, you move as an actress!" I believe that happens to a lot of people. People have a multiplicity of gifts, but I think people in your life are telling you which one you should focus on. I just got done talking with my group of water walkers about this. If you focus on one of your gifts, that one gift will be the catalyst to open up opportunities for the other gift.

  

  Brely Evans
  • Opportunities
  • Move
  • Singer

• The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and try not to really think about the fact that they're not gonna be on this earth any longer, that they had an effect on you and your lives, and that's what you should take out.

  

  Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Effect

• You must bring a white-hot level of intensity and focus to your work.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Work
  • Focus

• It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.

  

  Mark Sheppard
  • People
  • Job
  • Interesting

• Focus on progress not perfection.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Focus
  • Progress
  • Perfection

• Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

  

  Louise Mensch
  • Attention
  • Wish
  • Hair

• The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Pretty
  • Focus

• A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Why
  • Job
  • Poverty

• It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Education
  • Focus

• We focus so much on our relationships with other people, and beauty, for me, is about facilitating your relationship with yourself.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Focus

• I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

  

  Jodi Rell
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Action

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