Focus Quotes

• I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

  

  Maud Adams
  • People
  • Important
  • Attention

• You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Focus

• Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

  

  Kenneth Chenault
  • People
  • Done
  • Commitment

• I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • True
  • Goal
  • Times

• When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • World
  • Past
  • Survival

• Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Life
  • World
  • Beautiful

• A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

  

  An Na
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Effort

• Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Focus

• We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we're just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what's important to the group is important to all five of us.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Explore

• 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

• I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Great
  • Focus
  • Monster

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

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Focus

• I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • People
  • Giving
  • Succeed

• Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Model
  • Fitness

• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  

  Colin Baker
  • Time
  • Small
  • Attention

• Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Technology

• I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has a huge effect on my weight, my health, and the environment.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Challenge

• 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

• Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Focus

• Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.

  

  Valie Export
  • Truth
  • Focus
  • Independent

• 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

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