Quotes About Focus

“Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.”

— 37 Signals

“Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something does exist that needs to be present - what is that? Talent and Drive - both are quite useless without the other, but what exactly is 'talent'? I would say its a form of the unconditioned: in some people it survives, even unto old age. Some learn to focus it on a particular craft. But without drive, it still goes nowhere.”

— Martijn Benders

“If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.”

— Courtney M. Privett

“Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.”

— Erik Tomblin

“Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn't say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she'd sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them.”

— Vanessa Kelly

“The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.”

— Tamara L. Chilver

“Somehow she always seems blurred, as though to focus on anything that exists beyond a canvas might prove too difficult for her tiny frame to handle. When I was a very little girl, whenever she made me angry, I would imagine a strong wind simply blowing her away.”

— Jessica Warman

“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull tests to see who can focus attention and stay on task. Children raised in the top income quintile were two-and-a-half times more likely to score well on these tests than students raised in the bottom quintile.”

— David Brooks

“The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room.”

— Laurie R. King

“I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.”

— John Fund

“I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.”

— Regina Spektor

“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.”

— Adam Ferrara

“In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.”

— Alexandra Robbins

“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.”

— Brian Andreas

“-The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

— Bruce Lee

“I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.”

— Steven Levitan

“When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.”

— Martha Quinn

“Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.”

— Christopher Abbott

“To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.”

— Tony Fadell

“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.”

— David Crystal

“'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.”

— Olivia Newton-John

“Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.”

— Dennis Lehane

“Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.”

— Henry Rollins

“Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”

— Jeremy Renner

“Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Focus.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.”

— Jean Chatzky

“We want to go further than preventing people from becoming terrorists and focus on a broader approach to counter-extremism - both violent and non-violent.”

— Theresa May

“My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.”

— Virat Kohli

“A quick change of magnification brought them into close focus-two massively real rockets thundering through the sky. The suddenness of it was shocking.”

— Douglas Adams

“Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset.”

— Robert Spector

“Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.”

— Gail Devers

“The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.”

— Anthony Hopkins

“To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen”

— Pat Williams

“Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.”

— Christopher Parsons

“With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.”

— Rachelle Lefevre

“There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.”

— Ian Somerhalder

“When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.”

— Ann Voskamp

“So forget the price tag. I mean, forget the size tag and focus on "Does it look right on me?" Would it look better with a little more blouse? A lot of people think, "Oh, my God, it's got to be tight, it's got to be tight." Actually, you look thinner when it's not as tigh”

— Molly Sims

“The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world ... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.”

— Ellen Goodman

“The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.”

— Evgeny Morozov

“We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.”

— Joe Torre

“I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.”

— Ted Cruz

“Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.”

— Tracy Morgan

“Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you - multiplied!”

— Rhonda Byrne

“Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.”

— M. Russell Ballard