“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.” PeopleTryingKindSeemsLostCommonGoneStudyFocusOne ThingPressesEdgesTabloidsBad Press Author:Cory Monteith
“I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.” PeopleThinkingEnoughMistakeFocusOne ThingMediaTelevisionWebsiteNew MediaFocus On One Thing Author:Chris Hardwick
“By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.” WantMindFocusOne ThingPerceptionTrainingGainsConcentrationFocus On One ThingTraining The Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.” WayMeanPersonsBigsKidsFocusMagicOne ThingManagementFactorsOrganizedTime ManagementFragmentsMikeOne Thing At A TimeMagic Mike Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.” RecordsFocusCuttingOne ThingHairFocusedShops Author:Theophilus London
“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.” KindI CanCharacterHelpingBigsAbleJobsStuffFocusOne ThingListeningFindingsCreatingHelp MeConsistentListening To MusicPaletteHeadphones Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.” FormThreeFocusOne ThingStageDesignColorModelsSeparatingOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.” IfsThinkingTryingWould BeToo MuchFocusRiskOne ThingBeing The BestSensibleFocus On One Thing Author:Doc Brown
“The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.” WellsMatterHardRunningSpiritualEasyCan DoLosesForgetPathFocusOne ThingWeekStressEntertainmentPrioritiesWanderWell BeingDesertEnginesSmall ThingsMaintenanceForget YouEntertainment Business Author:Ralph K. Winter, Jr.
“For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.” IfsTryingDifferentEnoughLastsFilmMovingChallengesAttentionToo MuchFocusOne ThingLast TimeCriteriaAlways Trying Author:Queen Latifah
“To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.” LongEnoughMotivationFireFocusOne ThingIgniteFocus On One Thing Author:Gary W. Keller
“It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.” PeopleHoursFocusOne ThingMusic IsJust Do It Author:Fetty Wap
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.” PeopleWorldWayLooksImportantAblePoliticalConsciousnessFocusOne ThingGroupsBlameGenderCriticalHandleEtcRealisticPreferenceWhitenessIntersectionalityFocus On One Thing Author:Bell Hooks
“I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy.” FocusOne ThingBusyListening To MusicWorkshopsAmmunitionFocus On One Thing Author:David Feherty
“The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.” Can DoFocusHappenedOne ThingStressManagement Author:Ben Horowitz
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.” IfsWayWantFeelsTryingKindDoeI CanMy OwnSituationSupportFocusWifeOne ThingInfluenceExampleSourceShapesWeaknessMy WifePartnersHopefullyUnconditional LoveUnconditionalStop TryingProactiveGreat MarriageControl Myself Author:Stephen Covey
“We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.” NeedsShouldHumansKidsGirlSuccessfulFocusOne ThingPopulationEducatedEducateFewerRoutesReducingHuman PopulationEducated Women Author:Bill Nye
“I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.” NeedsKindPersonsRunningNightNextFocusOne ThingReadyCamerasBottomLikesNext DaySkiingRecoveringOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Nick Goepper
“Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him.” IfsWayWantNeedsPersonsHelpingValuesProcessGoalLove IsFocusOne ThingTeamShiningBest WayUrgesTake TimeLove SomeoneWant HimWhen You Love SomeoneBringing Out The BestLove Takes Time Author:Jon Gordon
“There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.” PeopleWellsFocusOne ThingStormFreakFrustrated Author:Taylor Swift
“You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.” TryingDifferentBreakFocusOne ThingWeekCrazyStageDevelopmentCoupleTasksSpinningStages Of DevelopmentFocus On One Thing Author:Justin Theroux
“Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.” IfsResultsFocusOne ThingAwarenessMindfulnessMessExcellentCircuitsOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Deepak Chopra
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder
“For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work” ThinkingKindDifferentPhilosophyViewsFocusOne ThingBearsMarkRaisesPhilosopher Author:Hilary Kornblith