300 Quotes on focus

• We craft our interior victories from the very fragments of our unsure movements.

  Author: Elenora Collins

• Self-improvement is the silence in which your true potential whispers; it grows nourished by relentless curiosity and resilience.

  Author: Alex Kim

• In the furnace of challenge, the mind maneuvers--clad in armor sewn from forests of failure, obstinance, and resolve.

  Author: Taylor Morgan

• Sculpting clarity in chaos is the essence of mental toughness; it transforms fear into blueprint.

  Author: Lila Byrne

• Dreaming about success is more exciting than soaking away reality alone

  Author: Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe

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  Author: Mother Monster - Lady Gaga

• In the stillness of particle dance lie geometric poetry and cosmic whispers, where unseen harmony reveals the universe not as chaos but as a symphonic calm.

  Author: Velia Arden

• In industry's tempestuous sea, creating moments of calm balances the volatilities; mastery rests in small stillnesses amidst the hurry.

  Author: Jamie Evridge

• In freeing ourselves from the clamor of our screens, we peel away the layers to unveil the timeless truths that gently whisper from within.

  Author: Marissa Lane

• In a world oversaturated with information, embracing digital minimalism is not just a liberation from distraction, but a revolution that redefines our relationship with technology--teaching us to find focus in complexity and value in simplicity.

  Author: Isla Verity

• When we hit pause in elapsed virtual moments, we rediscover life's unfiltered aliveness within grounding pauses.

  Author: Ava Mendez

• In a world woven with distractions, nourishing focus on mindful tech usage not only preserves our attention but enriches each moment in which we engage.

  Author: Alex Rivera

• Balanced connectivity should refresh the spirit, not overcharge the soul.

  Author: Emilia Foxford

• Embracing digital minimalism isn't merely about limiting distractions; it's about creating intentional layers, allowing clarity to bloom in the oversaturated attention economy.

  Author: Sarah Lim

• In a world heavy with distraction, the brave embrace emptiness to fill their authentic selves.

  Author: Ana Milkovich

• Amidst the chaos of a concentrated online presence, true focus silences the incessant notifications of neglect.

  Author: Ella Porter

• Digital minimalism isn't just about shrinking your screen time but unveiling a high-definition life -- center our focus over bytes, letting curated moments take precedence over those received nerve-indicating pint-sized notifications.

  Author: Aurora Bramton

• Embracing digital minimalism isn't about despising technology; it's an art form for reviving what truly inspires us and fading out the static.

  Author: Zara Ellison

• In the expanse of endless notifications, finding silence has become the ultimate rebellion of choice.

  Author: Elara Nicholls

• Digital minimalism challenges us to reclaim our attention from the assorted details of clickbait and filler; it is a philosophy where less notifications equal more vibrancy in the life outside of miniature screens.

  Author: Maya Guilford

• Embracing digital minimalism is like sculpting with? a chisel: it liberates essential connections concealed by the stone of distractions.

  Author: Kira Moss

• Cleaning your digital footprint is like airing out a dusty room; clarity returns when you let go of what divides your focus from what sparks joy.

  Author: Amelia Reed

• Embracing digital minimalism is not merely about reducing screen time; it realigns our intentions with the intentionality of connection in an age full of noise.

  Author: Clara Manyiwa

• Engaging with technology intuitively humans connect, elevate attention yet escape distractions arrival.

  Author: Zara Patel

• Simplifying your environment liberates the heart, revealing details often drowned in clutter today, inhale the beauty of each nuance underneath compressed premiums.

  Author: Amber Elyse

• Tech flourishes not just in interconnectivity, but in moments carved out for silence, where attention flows like water through a conscious river.

  Author: SY Rahimi

• In the quiet spaces between notifications, we redefine our relationship with the screens that connect but often diffuse our focus.

  Author: Jamie Graves

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people. Success will find you when your energy is positive.

  Author: Elizabeth McLaughlin

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people. Success is inevitable.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• Do your best, always think positively, never give up, remain focused, and surround yourself with good people.

  Author: John Smith

• Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results

  Author: Sean Stevenson

• You will never reach your destination if you keep stopping to throw rocks at every dog that barks.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• Dare to dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with positive people.

  Author: Sandra Salazar

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and make it happen!

  Author: Jennifer Lopez

• Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there

  Author: Josh Billings

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people for success.

  Author: John Doe

• Follow your passion, even when taco memes distract you.

  Author: Sofia Martinez

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people because perfect servings always play spoons of success!

  Author: Linda Perez

• Don't jack of all trades and master of none, be an echo supremist.

  Author: Myrtle Warbler

• The only way to achieve greatness is to limit your distractions and focus on your destination.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• Successful people never worry about what others are doing; they stay focused on their own path.

  Author: Oprah Winfrey

• Success is not about how high you reach, but how focused you stay on your goal.

  Author: Taylor Mitchell

• The key to success is to focus on your goals despite the distractions along the way.

  Author: Amanda Wong

• The key to success is not in being the best, but in being persistent and focused in your journey.

  Author: Samantha Cole

• Rise above the waves of doubt and let the winds of purpose guide you towards success.

  Author: Aurora Brooks

• Wisdom is knowing what to ignore in a world of distractions.

  Author: Maya Dunham

• Let your passion be your compass in a world full of distractions.

  Author: Amanda Brooks

• The only way to achieve your dreams is to stay focused on them, no matter how many distractions come your way.

  Author: Sophia Brown

• The key to success is not in doing it all, but in focusing on what really matters.

  Author: Amanda Scott

• The key to success is to focus on your goals amidst the distractions of life.

  Author: Maya Patel

• Dream big, work hard, stay focused. Success is just around the corner.

  Author: Sophia Park

• Stay focused on the step ahead, for it's the little victories that pave the path to success.

  Author: Sarah Johnson

• Chase your dreams with the determination of a lion, the focus of an eagle, and the persistence of a honey bee.

  Author: Jessica Williams

• Success is the outcome of consistency, determination, and unwavering focus on the goal.

  Author: Michelle Thompson

• I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• You help families focus on the future through their children.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• My main focus is on my game.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

  Author: Diane Wood

• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

  Author: August Wilson

• I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

  Author: Lucinda Williams

• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

  Author: James Welch

• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Author: Alan Watts

• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  Author: William Ward

• I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

  Author: Vera Wang

• 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.

  Author: Greg Walden

• In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

  Author: Andrzej Wajda

• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

  Author: Mark Wahlberg

• I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Author: Bruce Vento

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.

  Author: Janine Turner

• 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.

  Author: Fred Turner

• Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

  Author: John Tukey

• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

  Author: John Thompson

• But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

  Author: John Templeton

• Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

  Author: Lawrence Taylor

• Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

  Author: Paul Tagliabue

• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  Author: Picabo Street

• All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• I think I'm a focus for international attention.

  Author: Sting

• International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

  Author: Jason Statham

• And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

  Author: Jason Statham

• Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

  Author: Will Smith

• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

  Author: Josh Silver

• Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

  Author: John Shimkus

• And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

  Author: Robert Shea

• I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

  Author: Doc Severinsen

• My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

  Author: Neil Schon

• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• 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.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  Author: Ibrahim Rugova

• I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.

  Author: Guido Rossum

• In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.

  Author: Guido Rossum

• When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

  Author: Mo Rocca

• Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

  Author: Bridget Riley

• The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

  Author: Bob Riley

• We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.

  Author: Rick Renzi

• Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

  Author: Leah Remini

• I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

  Author: Jodi Rell

• Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

  Author: Mitchell Reiss

• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  Author: William Pollard

• By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• 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.

  Author: John Pistole

• You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

  Author: Robert Patrick

• We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

  Author: Deval Patrick

• We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.

  Author: Tony Parker

• Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

  Author: Joy Page

• As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

  Author: Bill Owens

• 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

  Author: Patton Oswalt

• When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

  Author: Aristotle Onassis

• In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

  Author: John Olver

• There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

  Author: Steve Odland

• I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

  Author: Michael Nyman

• Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  Author: Jack Nicklaus

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

  Author: Bob Nelson

• I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

  Author: Dennis Muren

• Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

  Author: Peter Munk

• The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

  Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

• I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

  Author: Kate Moss

• Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

  Author: Roger Moore

• Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

  Author: Dennis Moore

• It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

  Author: Elizabeth Moon

• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  Author: Laura Miller

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  Author: Laura Miller

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  Author: Dan Miller

• Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

  Author: Bode Miller

• That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.

  Author: Christina Milian

• Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

  Author: John McHugh

• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  Author: David McCullough

• However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

  Author: Bruce McCulloch

• It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

  Author: Mike McCready

• We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

  Author: Herbie Mann

• I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

  Author: Miriam Makeba

• If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.

  Author: Sydney Madwed

• Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.

  Author: Andrea Mackris

• We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

  Author: LaToya London

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  Author: LaToya London

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  Author: LaToya London

• I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

  Author: Lisa Loeb

• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

  Author: Rebecca Lobo

• It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

  Author: Mark Lloyd

• The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

  Author: Blake Lively

• We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

  Author: Anna Lindh

• There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

  Author: Judith Light

• But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

  Author: Alex Lifeson

• Clarity affords focus.

  Author: Thomas Leonard

• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

  Author: Michael LeBoeuf

• Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

  Author: Jennifer Lawrence

• The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

  Author: Stefano Langone

• But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

  Author: Bernhard Langer

• We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

  Author: Judge Lane

• I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

  Author: Dalai Lama

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  Author: Jack LaLanne

• We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

  Author: William Labov

• But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Author: Philip Knight

• Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

  Author: Allen Klein

• Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

  Author: Richard King

• I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

  Author: Johannes Kepler

• Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

  Author: Maynard Keenan

• For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

  Author: Jonathan Katz

• I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

  Author: Gil Kane

• I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

  Author: Gil Kane

• My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

  Author: Steve Kanaly

• I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

  Author: Nancy Johnson

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  Author: Eddie Johnson

• When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.

  Author: Darren Johnson

• I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

  Author: Darren Johnson

• We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

  Author: Derek Jeter

• I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

• I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time.

  Author: Ben Jackson

• I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship.

  Author: Ben Jackson

• We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

  Author: Joichi Ito

• Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

  Author: Charlie Hunter

• No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

  Author: bell hooks

• While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

  Author: Benny Hinn

• I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

  Author: Don Henley

• We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

  Author: Paul Hawken

• I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

  Author: Teri Hatcher

• Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

  Author: Alcee Hastings

• But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

  Author: Jerry Harrison

• It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

  Author: Paul Harris

• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

  Author: Lee Haney

• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Author: Marvin Hagler

• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  Author: John Haggai

• For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

  Author: John Grierson

• It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

  Author: Christine Gregoire

• People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

  Author: Lou Gramm

• Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

  Author: Sue Grafton

• I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

  Author: Sue Grafton

• Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.

  Author: Andrew Gould

• We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

  Author: Fred Gosman

• As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

  Author: William Glasser

• It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

  Author: Robin Gibb

• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

  Author: Alexi Giannoulias

• No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

  Author: Gil Gerard

• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  Author: Uri Geller

• When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

  Author: Sunil Gavaskar

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

  Author: John Fund

• Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

  Author: Bill Frist

• I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

  Author: Dave Freudenthal

• The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

  Author: Dave Freudenthal

• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Author: Al Franken

• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

  Author: Thomas Frank

• I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  Author: Calista Flockhart

• I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.

  Author: Ernie Fletcher

• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  Author: Warren Farrell

• And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

  Author: Edie Falco

• This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.

  Author: Lorrie Fair

• And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

  Author: Joe Eszterhas

• If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

  Author: Clarissa Estes

• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

  Author: Philip Emeagwali

• I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

  Author: James Ellroy

• I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

  Author: Shannon Elizabeth

• My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.

  Author: Robert. Ehrlich

• Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

  Author: Mark Edwards

• I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

  Author: Stefan Edberg

• My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

  Author: Sheena Easton

• I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

  Author: George Dzundza

• If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

  Author: George Dzundza

• When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

  Author: Eliza Dushku

• You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

  Author: K. Drexler

• What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

  Author: David Donald

• I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

  Author: Rocco DiSpirito

• Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

  Author: Rocco DiSpirito

• There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

  Author: Trent Dilfer

• School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

  Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

• The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

  Author: Morris Dees

• I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

  Author: Christopher Darden

• Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

  Author: Anthony D'Angelo

• I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

  Author: Claire Danes

• I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  Author: Matt Damon

• You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

  Author: James Daly

• I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

  Author: James Daly

• I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

  Author: James Daly

• Within the atoms of silence lie the unresolved music of forgotten echoes, preserved not as noise but as the tension where shadows danced in radiance long neglected.

  Author: Quinn Earhart

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