Focus Quotes
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Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.
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I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.
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Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
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It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.
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If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.
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Expressing myself is what I love most; not having enough time is what I hate about it... I keep to myself, though, when I am on tour, and focus on the tour.
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A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me and was part of my upbringing: Brokenhearted people and poor people and people who are in trouble should be your focus, and you should be on their team.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.
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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
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We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.
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I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.
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Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious. "Ah, yes, that's electronic music." But they don't realize that so is the concept of actually taking a piece of extant music and literally re-collaging it, taking chunks out and changing the dynamics radically and creating new rhythmic structures with echo and all that. That's real electronic music, as far as I'm concerned.
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Startups need to focus on building a foundation for their company culture early, and then they need to revisit it often. Every time a hire is made, a feature is launched, a Facebook status is updated, a press interview is given, a round of financing is raised, or a meeting is held, culture should be part of the decision-making process.
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If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.
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At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
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Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.
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Whatever you focus on is what you get.
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Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
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If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
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In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.
