Focus Quotes

• When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • People
  • Up
  • Crazy

• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  

  David McCullough
  • Book
  • America
  • War

• I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

  

  Deborah Ann Woll
  • Energy
  • Focus

• You see things out of the corner of your mind or the corner of your eye that affect you just as strongly as things that you focus on, if not more so.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Mind
  • Focus

• It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Brain

• I tour Europe a lot. They still have a love and a fascination with the basic thing about music - how it feels and that being the focus. I've got people bringing their kids. And their kids bring their kids. The grandchildren are getting selfies with their Uncle Al.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Training

• It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Success

• Obviously, we were disappointed that neither 'The Last Witch Hunter' nor 'American Ultra' found bigger theatrical audiences. It's important to note that our focus on risk mitigations limited our exposure on both films, and I'm pleased to report that 'The Last Witch Hunter' is doing well in a number of international territories.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
  • Important
  • American
  • Risk

• You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Control
  • Focus

• 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

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure.

  

  Cynthia Dill
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Stop

• If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Smart

• Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

  

  W Mitchell
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Rest

• 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

• In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Focus
  • Diversity

• 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

• 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

• The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Passion
  • Focus

• Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

  

  John Hurt
  • Done
  • Focus

• From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.

  

  Jonny Diaz
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Kind

• It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Comedy

• People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Focus

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