Best Focus Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.”

Leader Focus Groups Youth Organization Future Leaders

Author:Richard Louv

“I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.”

Knows Littles Character Helping Focus Help Me Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.”

World I Can Different Focus Different Place

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

People Character Actors Focus Directors Solitary Ensemble

Author:Jodie Foster

“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.”

Knows Trying Mean Focus Fame Fleeting

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”

People Way Spiritual Energy Term My Own Focus Crisis Obsession Spiritual Crisis

Author:Jodie Foster

“The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.”

Country Roles Focus Movement Changed Research Aspect West Western Islamic Secular Asian Asian Countries

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.”

Wells School Focus Player Decided Theater Quitting League Scholarship Volleyball Ivy I Quit Ivy League Volleyball Player Ivy League Schools

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.”

People Stories Focus Symmetry

Author:Frank Ocean

“White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.”

War Shows Home House White Issues Focus Length White House Shifting

Author:Ron Fournier

“I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”

Focus Feet Fronts

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.”

Writing Different Focus Details

Author:Tea Obreht

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.”

People I Can Focus Fame

Author:Will Oldham

“My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.”

Way Character Jobs Focus Honest

Author:Danny Pudi

“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Games Winning Stuff Loses Focus Football Focused Consistent American Football Winning Games

Author:Mike Singletary

“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

Whole Funny Forget Focus Effects Cost Difficulty Mediums Producers Thoughtful Pool Publishing Blogs Blogging Bloggers

Author:Clay Shirky

“I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.”

People Years Done Lasts Past Politics Focus Judging Congress Judge Me

Author:Dan Quayle

“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”

Thinking World Needs Ends Enough Bigs Happens Energy Levels Focus Users Microsoft Oracles Ibm User Experience

Author:Aaron Levie

“We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.”

Made States Would Be Focus Victory Majors Reform Greece Mandates Landslides

Author:George Papandreou

“I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.”

Want Technology Support Focus Cutting Edges Missions Priorities Agency Collectives Workforce Interconnected Cutting Edge Stakeholder Counter Terrorism Tsa

Author:John S. Pistole

“Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.”

Done Helping Jobs Asks Leader Records Focus Mark Humble Accomplishment Governors Romney True Leader Accolades Governor Romney

Author:Reince Priebus

“That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.”

Ifs Way Looks Happens Sound Cases Focus Worst Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Pollyanna Tripe

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

Years Different Views Focus Intellectual Performances Strategy Constant Point Of View Dialogue Developing Executives Engaging Opposing Different Points Of View

Author:Jeff Raikes

“When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.”

Needs Care Enjoy Responsibility Focus Mom Balance Athlete Gym Being A Mom

Author:Melanie Roach

“On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.”

Way Trying Different Character Stories Shows Happens Lasts Focus Stage Including Stressed Syllables I'm Back Vowels Consonants

Author:Ron Rash

“In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.”

People Has Beens Past Memories Records Focus Tense Instagram Present Tense

Author:Kevin Systrom

“I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.”

Firsts Book Grows Lines Focus Scene Plot

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.”

Mean Shows Courses Focus Huge Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Emeli Sande

“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.”

Trying Focus Player Decided Guitar Rhythm Neglected Guitar Player

Author:Hal Sparks

“Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Children Jobs Actors Strong Attitude Focus Healthy Helpful About Yourself Relaxed My Attitude Thinking About You Thinking About Yourself

Author:Imelda Staunton

“Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.”

Needs Different Done Fighting Interest Party Focus Special Urges Special Interests

Author:Ken Salazar

“My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.”

Inspirational Has Beens Focus Sobriety

Author:Steve-O

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Believe Long Done Games Sports Lines Focus Ready Huge Healthy Achievement Training Preparation Consistent Believe In Me Of My Mind

Author:Anthony Calvillo

“It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.”

Mind Long Important Real Lying Answers Study Focus Teacher Teaching Subjects Buddhism Balance Answers To Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.”

Needs Jobs Energy Careers Focus Strange Buddhism Balance Picks Focused Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.”

Feels Looks Long Beautiful Happiness Life Is Realizing Wonder Focus Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.”

Culture Focus Buddhism Sexuality Primaries Resolve

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.”

Ifs Want Fun Focus Buddhism Sexuality Having Fun Our Relationship

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”

People Ifs Made Real Kids Grows Stuff Rooms Focus Couple Drama Commitment

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”

Want Feels Real Used Focus Scene Theater Backgrounds Repetition Attacking Variation Perfectionist

Author:Michael Shannon

“Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.”

Men Doe Sometimes Sin Focus Risk Becoming News Men And Women Negative Aspect Ill Spread Tendencies Journalist Scandal Exaggerated

Author:Pope Francis

“I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.”

Wonder Focus Groups Meetings Anchors Focus Groups

Author:Shepard Smith

“When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.”

Heart Made Film Decision Study Focus Plans Groups Nfl Surveys Demographics Business Plan Focus Groups

Author:Steve Sabol

“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

People Thinking Self Running Ability Successful Focus Taught Thread Successful People Self Taught

Author:Fred L. Turner

“I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.”

Giving Hard Opportunity Focus Hard Work Giving Up Obstacles Not Giving Up

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.”

Focus Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.”

Children Today Left Focus Husband Focused Left Out Entanglement

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.”

World Energy Nations Focus Source Development Cost Demand Clean Oil Around The World Rising Efficient Oregon Energy Sources

Author:Greg Walden

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