Focus Quotes
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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
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The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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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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With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority.
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I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.
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I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.
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Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.
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My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.
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Our focus is on our two guys. We're praying about their health, to overcome this tragedy.
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Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
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Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.
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Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.
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My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.
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Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
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I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
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My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.
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You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
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Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.
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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
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We don't focus on the little details. Right now we're squeezing, we're squeezing the stick. If we would get an early goal, but we think that by cheating we're going to get that early goal, but it doesn't work like this.
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You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.
