Focus Quotes

• Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Women
  • Society

• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

  

  Bridget Riley
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Focus

• The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Experience
  • True

• My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Hair

• Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

  

  John Maeda
  • Today
  • Lost
  • Focus

• The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

  

  Adele
  • Money
  • Focus
  • Surprised

• I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Good
  • Focus

• A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Focus

• It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.

  

  Sadie Calvano
  • People
  • Up
  • Environment

• Now I am a grandfather, I am very content. I can focus on improving the economy in Taiwan now.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • Focus

• I think I have made a difference. I have meant a lot to my people. I have done well. They are proud of me. And that was the main focus. I was doing it for my people, the people who support me.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • People
  • Support
  • Doing For

• Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

  

  Margaret Hamburg
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Style

• I have to be able to stick to very dedicated times to work on things, do exactly as I say I'm going to do, show up when I say I'm going to show up and focus that's the only way I've been able to pull off everything last year but I'm hoping I'll never have to do that again, it's a hell of a lot of work that's for sure.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Work
  • Years
  • Able

• Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Night
  • Change

• I'm a very private guy, so it's an adjustment for me, but a welcomed one, as long as the work remains the focus.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Work
  • Long
  • Guy

• When we each focus on being the dominant force in our own universe rather than invading other universes, we all win.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Universe
  • Focus

• There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Path

• In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Different
  • Business
  • Focus

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