Focus Quotes

‘It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.’ – Matt Cameron

‘Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.’ – Greg Anderson

‘When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don’t be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going.’ – Kendra Scott

‘Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.’ – Denis Waitley

‘You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.’ – Mark Twain

‘I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.’ – Venus Williams

‘You never know the plan. You never know what’s going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘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.’ – Elle Macpherson

‘I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.’ – Dalai Lama

‘What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that’s what we’re going to focus on.’ – Bill Belichick

‘Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.’ – Alan Watts

‘It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘At the end of the day, you can’t control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.’ – Ben Zobrist

‘Clarity affords focus.’ – Thomas Leonard

‘Smart people focus on the right things.’ – Jensen Huang

‘The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.’ – Brian Tracy

‘My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.’ – Jen Sincero

‘The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘When trouble comes, focus on God’s ability to care for you.’ – Charles Stanley

‘There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.’ – Jenny Nimmo

‘Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.’ – Joe Biden

‘My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.’ – Jim Carrey

‘I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.’ – Steve Gleason

‘Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.’ – Martha Beck

‘Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.’ – Ralph Marston

‘That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.’ – Steve Jobs

‘It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.’ – Dustin Poirier

‘All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.’ – Casey Stengel

‘Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.’ – Jack Canfield

‘The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Don’t focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.’ – Roman Reigns

‘Earnings don’t move the overall market; it’s the Federal Reserve Board… focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity… most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It’s liquidity that moves markets.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

‘The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.’ – Jacqueline Leo

‘You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.’ – Sabrina Bryan

‘I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Anything that’s not positive, I don’t have the energy to focus on it. Anything that’s not going in the right direction, I don’t have the time or the energy.’ – DMX

‘It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.’ – Carli Lloyd

‘By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.’ – Mark Rober

‘Michael Jordan taught me after our game of one-on-one: A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. When excuses are no longer an option, you can focus your attention on the job you have to do, and not why it didn’t get done.’ – Don Yaeger

‘Focus on the positives and be grateful.’ – Katrina Bowden

‘Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘When you focus on your dreams, great things happen.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.’ – Tim Cook

‘The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.’ – Kiran Bedi

‘Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.’ – Vera Lynn

‘When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘I don’t care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.’ – Hans-Georg Gadamer

‘Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.’ – Rihanna

‘Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.’ – Martin Garrix

‘As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.’ – Henry Cavill

‘When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.’ – Ansel Adams

‘Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.’ – John Carmack

‘School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can’t concentrate on it. People always say, ‘You should have tried harder.’ But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.’ – Mark Manson

‘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.’ – Pope Francis

‘Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.’ – Kanye West

‘Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.’ – Miriam Makeba

‘You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.’ – Henry Sy

‘Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.’ – Billy Wilder

‘I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be.’ – Amy Poehler

‘Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.’ – Peter McWilliams

‘If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.’ – James Acaster

‘Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.’ – Jaan Tallinn

‘I’m not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.’ – Marcela Valladolid

‘A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.’ – Xi Jinping

‘If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.’ – Leroy Hood

‘If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.’ – Hans Selye

‘The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.’ – Judy Smith

‘Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you’re just unable to focus.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.’ – Ricky Martin

‘Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.’ – Johannes Kepler

‘Focus on eating real, whole, natural foods. As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you can eat it!’ – Suzanne Somers

‘You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that’s not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can’t jump cliffs in a single bound.’ – Terence Tao

‘The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that’s the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day.’ – Dana White

‘The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.’ – Sam Altman

‘Focus on being balanced – success is balance.’ – Laila Ali

‘One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.’ – Richard Simmons

‘I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.’ – Lando Norris

‘You should always focus on training and consider it a step forward. And each step is taking you higher and higher until you reach the top, which is where you should stay.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘For me, I don’t think about size – I focus more on being powerful and confident.’ – Simone Biles

‘People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘I just focus on getting better.’ – Auston Matthews

‘You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.’ – Vikramaditya Motwane

‘Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.’ – Arsene Wenger

‘My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘Don’t focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.’ – Alek Wek

‘Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.’ – Mike Rowe

‘We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn’t recognize value, it’s contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it’s done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.’ – Alice Waters

‘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.’ – bell hooks

‘You’re as good as your next game, not your previous, so I’ll focus on the next one.’ – Alun Wyn Jones

‘A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.’ – Rod Blagojevich

‘It’s so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I’m not incredibly passionate about.’ – SZA

‘Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.’ – Mike Krieger

‘I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.’ – David Cameron

‘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

‘After doing a juice cleanse, I’m motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I’m putting into my body. I’m making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.’ – Salma Hayek

‘You can’t just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.’ – Ninja

‘When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can’t let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.’ – Janet Jackson

‘One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.’ – Tony Robbins

‘It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of ‘Is this good for a child?’ And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.’ – Campbell Brown

‘I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.’ – Kevin Gates

‘I’m not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can’t have personal relationships like other people do. I can’t spend time on that.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘I just focus on what I can control, and that’s how hard I play and my attitude.’ – Jalen Brunson

‘I can’t put this down. I’m reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.’ – Bojan Krkic

‘I have grown used to the focus on my clothes and my shoes.’ – Theresa May

‘eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.’ – Jeff Jordan

‘So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.’ – Scott Cook

‘I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don’t give up, you will still succeed.’ – William Kamkwamba

‘I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common – which is – we all want to be happy.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.’ – Jenni Rivera

‘Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Teenagers only have to focus on themselves – its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.’ – Jennifer Lawrence

‘The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.’ – Angela Duckworth

‘If you’re proud of something, and if you’re proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that’s what you have to focus on.’ – Dylan O’Brien

‘In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women’s health and access to care – not just during labor and delivery, but before and after pregnancy, and throughout our lives.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.’ – Tim Cook

‘Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.’ – Izabel Goulart

‘When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.’ – Tony Cardenas

‘Focus on remedies, not faults.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.’ – Meek Mill

‘The United Nations must focus on delivery rather than process and on people rather than bureaucracy.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘It’s human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you’re going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It’s easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.’ – Bindi Irwin

‘I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.’ – Conor McGregor

‘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.’ – Kevin Systrom

‘I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what’s needed.’ – Jason Statham

‘I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain’t got no guidance, you can’t do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.’ – Lil Durk

‘I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘At Netflix, we realized that we weren’t in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone – movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself – won.’ – Marc Randolph

‘I don’t spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.’ – Trisha Yearwood

‘People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus.’ – Christian Louboutin

‘That’s the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.’ – Steve-O

‘Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn’t think I’d be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.’ – John Williams

‘To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Every habit is made of three parts… a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.’ – Ann Voskamp

‘If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.’ – Larry Page

‘When I am Naughty Chef, I’m definitely in focus mode, but once the food has been served I’m in a better place to party.’ – Naughty Boy

‘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.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don’t understand. It is British people that don’t learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.’ – Eminem

‘I have become a person who can focus more on love.’ – IU

‘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.’ – John Hagee

‘All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we’ll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I’m said to have been involved even if I’ve had nothing to do with it. That’s why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.’ – Lionel Messi

‘I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.’ – Bill Gates

‘We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘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.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.’ – Andy Warhol

‘The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease – it’s really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘The market is often stupid, but you can’t focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.’ – John C. Bogle

‘If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.’ – Julius Randle

‘It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.’ – Jennifer Winget

‘It’s all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn’t move the game forward – the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please – so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.’ – Bonnie Hammer

‘The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.’ – Jonas Mekas

‘I’d never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.’ – Howie Long

‘The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?’ – Muhammad Ali

‘I’m always thinking I’m messing up. I did a lot of classes. I can’t stand being on stage or the only one talking in a room, so class really helped me deal with that. It doesn’t really get any easier, but it helps you focus on the acting.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘I only want to do better work. That’s the focus of my life.’ – Ajay Devgan

‘I think millennials have really made it their vision and commitment into life to really find themselves, to focus on what matters.’ – Jay Shetty

‘Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Many people don’t focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.’ – Kenneth Chenault

‘I’ve learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what’s a movie I’d like to watch as the audience.’ – Eugenio Derbez

‘There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.’ – Pete Maravich

‘There’s nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.’ – Thomas Newman

‘When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.’ – Johnny Depp

‘It’s like, the more you zoom in and focus on the details, the closer to the invisible and immeasurable qualities – like consciousness and energies – you get. And expanding outwards, into the cosmos, you learn more about the invisible or perceptible things.’ – Adrianne Lenker

‘The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I worried that people wouldn’t like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.’ – Lea Michele

‘I just trust in God, work hard, and focus on executing.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘Whenever the heat’s on, my whole life, I’ve just kind of learned to focus a little more.’ – Jordan Spieth

‘If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, you need to focus on increasing your stamina.’ – Tom Payne

‘When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.’ – Marley Dias

‘With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.’ – Meghan Markle

‘I didn’t have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren’t popular and you don’t have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘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.’ – Bill Frist

‘We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘We really don’t look at our competitors. The market is big. If you focus too much on competitors, you can lose focus on the customer. If we make our customers happier, we are going to win.’ – Eric Yuan

‘To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don’t read the novel, really.’ – Philip Roth

‘I focus on my shape, about my cardio, about my strengths.’ – Jan Blachowicz

‘My focus is basketball, and that’s it.’ – Kyrie Irving

‘Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby’s diaper.’ – David Dastmalchian

‘Vote Leave argued during the referendum that a Leave victory should deliver the huge changes that the public wanted and the U.K. should make science and technology the focus of a profound process of national renewal.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘It’s a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that’s the job – to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.’ – Mark Sheppard

‘Reggae music don’t really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don’t mean black people. It mean people in general.’ – Burning Spear

‘Most of the games don’t let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I’ve been watching these girls.’ – Lawrence Taylor

‘As a catcher, you have to put your focus on what you’re doing defensively. You learn how to put your at-bats aside if you’re struggling.’ – Buster Posey

‘For every Harvey Weinstein, there’s three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it.’ – Tarana Burke

‘You have to play offense and defense without thinking, and react like you know what to do, but if you’re thinking of where to be and 1,000 other things you can lose focus. You’re trying to play hard, but you’re overthinking.’ – Mike D’Antoni

‘One of the things about live music that’s so incredibly important and can’t be replaced and automated is the common focus of a room full of people having that human contact and being immersed in the sensory overload of a rock concert.’ – John Rzeznik

‘When we’re suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to ‘get over it,’ how to just ‘get to the other side.” – Claire Wineland

‘I’m uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.’ – Yusef Komunyakaa

‘At a high level there’s always gonna be noise and rumors, whether it’s fake stories or real ones. You’ve got to be able to block that out and zone in and focus on the task at hand.’ – Caleb Plant

‘What I do is I keep trying to focus on what I am doing now, instead of wasting time thinking about what went wrong in the past or will happen in the future.’ – HoYeon Jung

‘If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you’re doing musically.’ – Grimes

‘I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.’ – Carre Otis

‘Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘There’s benefits of having established artists on the record, Liam Payne on ‘Polaroid’ for example. If you look at that song you have Lennon Stella, who’s an up-and-coming artist, so there’s a balance on there because I still want people to focus on the song just as much as Liam being an amazing superstar.’ – Jonas Blue

‘Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.’ – P. V. Sindhu

‘Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.’ – LeBron James

‘The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.’ – Howard Berman

‘The whole thing about me being The Showstopper – and Mr. WrestleMania – is that it was something I said once, and it took on a life of its own from there. Truthfully, I think the idea of going out and stealing the show is something you ought to do every time you wrestle. But if you focus only on that element, you end up doing almost too much.’ – Shawn Michaels

‘My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me.’ – Gerard Way

‘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.’ – Phil Knight

‘Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don’t include is as important as what we do include.’ – Jonathan Ive

‘Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.’ – Flume

‘Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they’re actually saying, not what they tell you.’ – Daniel Ek

‘It’s a goalkeeper’s job. There’s so many times you’re doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there’s a split-second moment. It’s a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it’s about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.’ – Karen Bardsley

‘For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.’ – Carmen Electra

‘In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.’ – Don Yaeger

‘My biggest regret is not spending more time reading when I was a teenager. My entire focus was on having fun and flirting with danger, hanging around with the kids with criminal records.’ – Richard Bacon

‘We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain’s allocation of resources.’ – Daphne Bavelier

‘Especially when you have a lot going on, you must find a way to unplug and focus on yourself.’ – Mandy Ingber

‘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.’ – Rocco DiSpirito

‘Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there’s something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.’ – Sarah Paulson

‘I clear my mind; I don’t think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.’ – Jose Aldo

‘Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.’ – Katherine Johnson

‘The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.’ – Ralph Marston

‘My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called ‘Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.” – Shari Arison

‘Regardless of what the score is, in any situation I just try to focus on my next shot.’ – Carey Price

‘I’ve lived an amazing life. There’s no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don’t want to be stuck in the rut? Then don’t look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.’ – Francesco Quinn

‘Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.’ – Marian Keyes

‘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.’ – Jonathan Katz

‘Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline – like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.’ – Flea

‘One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what’s important to you and how you use your time.’ – Lorne Michaels

‘If you’ve been betrayed by a spouse or a partner, it’s much easier to focus on causing that person pain than it is to turn forward and actually create a life that’s worthy of you in the future.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what’s in front of me, and serendipity steps in.’ – Susan Brooks

‘I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children – some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.’ – Justin Theroux

‘What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can’t. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can’t control.’ – John Bytheway

‘For me, I’ve learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.’ – Sidney Crosby

‘I think we really try to focus on acknowledgement. Like acknowledging, OK, that was not such a good play, but at the end of the day it’s only one point really in the perspective of the match, and you have a chance to replace it with a good one.’ – Jordan Larson

‘I’ve always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.’ – Tim Daly

‘If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.’ – Brian Chesky

‘I don’t try to focus on anything that doesn’t affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I’m just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.’ – Tim Tebow

‘I’m happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘I reached this turning point where I was either going to dwell in the darkness or I was just going to slap myself around the face a few times and say, ‘Wake up; you’re incredibly blessed. Focus on all the great things.” – Ant Anstead

‘I think L.A. is impossible. There’s just too much media focus. You can’t live a normal life.’ – Brad Pitt

‘I just try to hang in there and try to focus every point.’ – Kei Nishikori

‘There are some who invoke separation of church and state – to try to get the government out of the business of morality – but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.’ – Aaron Judge

‘If you’re going to be world-class, you have to focus.’ – Alan Mulally

‘The secret to multitasking is that it isn’t actually multitasking. It’s just extreme focus and organization.’ – Joss Whedon

‘Big hits are part of the game. So, paramount to every time I train is just to focus on staying healthy and doing everything I can to stay healthy.’ – Zach Ertz

‘Just focus on doing what you love to do and play your best game. Get your qualities out of the pitch, enjoy your game and don’t think about the other things.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.’ – Janet Reno

‘It’s easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it’s easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn’t do something rather than the one reason you should.’ – Wendy Kopp

‘My greatest asset now is my focus.’ – Josh McDowell

‘The games after ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3′ will not exist in the movie universe. Like it or hate it, I felt that this was the best portion of the storyline to really focus in on.’ – Scott Cawthon

‘Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘Fear is a great signal. It’s like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.’ – Wim Hof

‘So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people’s lives globally, but doing our absolute utmost to preserve as much biodiversity as we can, knowing that we have already been responsible for the loss of thousands of species.’ – Alice Roberts

‘It’s the tactics, the little things I like to focus on and get better at.’ – Jack Sock

‘One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it’s more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what’s worth caring about and what’s just noise or distraction.’ – Mark Manson

‘Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.’ – Joe Taslim

‘I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.’ – Kimberly Bryant

‘Most e-commerce sites focus on a product lists, they don’t have stories. They don’t tell you why the products are made or a reason you’d want to have this in your home.’ – Sussanne Khan

‘There’s so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He’s so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.’ – Adam Driver

‘I can’t watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is ‘What am I doing with my hands?’ or ‘Why did I lean that way?’ or ‘What’s that look on my face?’ It’s too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.’ – Katie McGrath

‘Beginning players are predictable and rarely bluff. They tend to focus only on their own hand and simply hope to catch the one card they need to improve.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there’s more need for affiliation.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.’ – Eden Hazard

‘We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.’ – Lee Haney

‘The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.’ – Mary Dillon

‘Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn’t a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.’ – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.’ – Wavy Gravy

‘Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We’ve come a long way. In the ’90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we’re owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.’ – Nicola Adams

‘A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.’ – John Jay Chapman

‘The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.’ – Todd Tiahrt

‘For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.’ – James Frain

‘My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.’ – James McBride

‘I’m not a fitness model; I’m just a singer. If people focus on that, that’s what I care about.’ – Alessia Cara

‘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.’ – Judith Light

‘I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.’ – LL Cool J

‘We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus – we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.’ – Tim Cook

‘The one thing that I heard is that being dependable is priceless, and that’s something I really put focus on.’ – Roderick Strong

‘My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Rather than focusing on my attempts to protect the Salvadoran people, the media should focus on why the National Assembly continues failing the people of El Salvador.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘I focus more on bars and beam just because those are my strongest events, and I just try and maintain whatever I can do on floor and vault. I’m consistently training on all events.’ – Sunisa Lee

‘Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I’m acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.’ – Lee Byung-hun

‘But I’m going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.’ – Benny Hinn

‘Our biggest learnings come only from the biggest blows, hence, I’d request one and all to look out for the silver linings and focus on positive thoughts and ideas, because as I always say, every cloud has a silver lining, and every sunset ends with a beautiful sunrise.’ – Rituparna Sengupta

‘I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.’ – Tommy Caldwell

‘Rage has such focus. It can’t go on forever, but it’s invigorating.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘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.’ – Sydney Madwed

‘I meditate. I breathe out what I can’t control and focus on the positives.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘The focus of ‘Flower’ is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.’ – Jenova Chen

‘I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.’ – Britt Daniel

‘When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.’ – Anna Gunn

‘I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.’ – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

‘You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.’ – Trent Alexander-Arnold

‘Football helped me tremendously, and that’s why I want the sport to stay because it’s so valuable. It’s helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I’ve learned discipline. I’ve learned focus, teamwork, communication.’ – Myron Rolle

‘It’s not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It’s the quantity and quality of your energy – your focus and force – that determine whether that time is valuable.’ – Jim Loehr

‘I discovered a long time ago that if I focus on doing the right thing for the long term to improve the lives of consumers and customers all over the world, the business results will come.’ – Paul Polman

‘I went to see ‘The Piano’ with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn’t focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.’ – Cherry Jones

‘Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any… I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.’ – Blase J. Cupich

‘We don’t focus on our rivals: we focus on ourselves.’ – Julen Lopetegui

‘Leaders tend to focus on ‘what to do,’ but the real issue is more often ‘how to do it.” – Irene Rosenfeld

‘The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘I’m a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won’t need a lot of makeup.’ – Demi Moore

‘I believe there are aspects of the narrative that become easier to understand by shifting the focus of the story to the characters. Illustrating growth and change in the protagonist becomes a simpler process, and these changes are, in fact, one of the themes of ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice”s story.’ – Hidetaka Miyazaki

‘Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the task – what specific things they’re doing rather than, ‘You’re so smart. You’re so good at this.’ Although it’s never too late to change, what you do early matters.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.’ – Andrew Gower

‘I want to keep upgrading my routines and focus on cleaning them up and being consistent.’ – Katelyn Ohashi

‘You have to find space in your own mind to completely focus on the job at hand. That’s the only way to deal with pressure. You have to be confident and welcome it.’ – Denise Lewis

‘Everybody in Canada watches it, everybody in Canada talks about it. Obviously, the NHL is not going on, so when you have an Olympics, the entire focus is on the Canadian team.’ – Joe Thornton

‘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.’ – Matt Damon

‘I love being a dad, and I’m good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It’s glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.’ – Pattie Boyd

‘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.’ – William Pollard

‘I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.’ – Jim Caviezel

‘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

‘A major focus of ‘Reality Hunger’ is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.’ – David Shields

‘Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!’ – Hannah Murray

‘Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it’s not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we’ll come to trust and respect them more.’ – Adam Grant

‘Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.’ – Andrea Corr

‘I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.’ – Young Thug

‘My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.’ – James Turrell

‘Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Holidays – any holiday – are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.’ – Lidia Bastianich

‘The biggest thing you can do in VR that you can’t really do in non-VR games is a huge focus on exploration and interaction.’ – Justin Roiland

‘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.’ – Jeremy Sisto

‘Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.’ – Greg Anderson

‘Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.’ – Anthony J. D’Angelo

‘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.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn’t call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision… this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.’ – Billy Corgan

‘There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.’ – Michelle Obama

‘I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.’ – Craig Thompson

‘I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in ‘A Christmas Story,’ in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that.’ – Paul Dini

‘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.’ – Jeffrey Sachs

‘My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.’ – Virat Kohli

‘My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.’ – Ralph Lauren

‘There are lots of professions where your social following is key now. But chasing followers is strange to me. I’d rather focus on the work.’ – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin

‘It was a pleasure working with Q Entertainment. I don’t focus on working with one company but rather with multiple companies, and I look forward to working with others.’ – Masahiro Sakurai

‘I’m into being a dad, that’s where my focus is most of the time. I’m an actor that’s my job, but it’s not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.’ – Paul Walker

‘It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘We focus on cultivating lifelong health and wellness, rather than a quick fix.’ – Joshua Rosenthal

‘Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.’ – Bill Gates

‘My generation was advised to focus on one area to excel.’ – Sreenivasan

‘I meditate and pray before going onstage – it helps me focus.’ – Harry Styles

‘The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.’ – Michael Dell

‘On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don’t see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.’ – Wolfgang Tillmans

‘I try to focus on what I love doing and if those things, those awards, those accolades, those tickets keep selling and coming like they are doing, I’m going to relish in it and live my life the best way I know how and be grateful.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That’s what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘We play a lot of Nintendo games, a lot of Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, a few different card games, really just stuff so we can stay loose and get your mind off of swimming before going into the meet with full focus.’ – Caeleb Dressel

‘To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it’s trivial or not time-bound, you won’t engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘I’m going to focus on myself and continue to get myself better because I have plenty of things I need to work on.’ – Jared Goff

‘Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.’ – John Tukey

‘I don’t like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.’ – Lando Norris

‘My choice of script is governed by two factors – either I’ve to like the people associated with the project or the storyline should be interesting. I focus more on the vibe and the type of energy I get from them.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.’ – Prince

‘As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up… so we can focus… so we can be in concert with one another.’ – Phil Jackson

‘I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.’ – Priyamvada Natarajan

‘When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.’ – Dara Khosrowshahi

‘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.’ – Kate Moss

‘In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers, we will be able to develop customer-centric innovations.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘The primary goal of IoT is to solve business problems, not to deliver a cool project or new technology. Focus on a business-relevant problem, and work with your customer to solve it.’ – Maciej Kranz

‘In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live – the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.’ – Kaui Hart Hemmings

‘Every shot is unique, even if it’s just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You’ve got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you’ve got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.’ – Robert Forster

‘Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.’ – Simone Biles

‘The Big Ten championship game is one of our goals year in and year out. So that’s just the focus.’ – Ryan Day

‘Federal policy tells us to fill 50 percent of our plates with fruits and vegetables. At the same time, federal farm subsidies focus on financing the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock.’ – Chuck Norris

‘At the core of the Magnolia brand is the desire to make homes beautiful but with a focus on family and practicality. We want to create spaces that families want to gather in.’ – Joanna Gaines

‘I think investors ought to focus on making sure that the stock is within their circle of competence, that it’s worth a lot more than it’s valued at – and once you have those two things, a stop-loss makes no sense.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘In the military, we are thrown into a melting pot of cultures and communities and we disagree a lot on how to accomplish the mission, but when it comes time to get the work done, we focus our energy on accomplishing the mission.’ – MJ Hegar

‘People focus too much on whether there’s a Democrat or a Republican in office. It’s not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It’s not like he wasn’t a problem. It’s not like we haven’t had warmongers. It’s not like corporations haven’t been the main influence on what we’re doing around the world.’ – Bill Burr

‘It’s always tough to play against teams that bunker or ‘park the bus’ inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.’ – Ali Krieger

‘Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.’ – Robin DiAngelo

‘I focus on organic foods and I also don’t eat any wheat or gluten.’ – Valtteri Bottas

‘I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘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.’ – Guido van Rossum

‘I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It’s all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work – nobody else is going to do it for you.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘Find things you’re passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.’ – Nick Jonas

‘I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention on these characters rather than worrying about my kids.’ – MacKenzie Scott

‘Focus on the long term, and always do what’s right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.’ – Adam D’Angelo

‘I’m focused on my future. I’m ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.’ – Aldous Harding

‘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.’ – Martin Sheen

‘In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients’ experiences.’ – Mikhail Varshavski

‘I’ve studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It’s mainly about daydreaming. And the technique’s really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.’ – Sam Rockwell

‘What we know for sure from our work and from others’ is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that’s fighting. I’m getting my cardio that way.’ – Brendan Schaub

‘I’ve been through plenty in my life where I’ve really had to focus on the day ahead… because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is… Once you’ve stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson

‘Unless it’s a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.’ – Ernie Els

‘In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it’s really all about the brain.’ – Chris Cornell

‘What I’m primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don’t do.’ – Roustam Tariko

‘I’m going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts – just speed.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it’s a working prototype; sometimes it’s an idea on a napkin. I don’t do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups – it’s the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.’ – Kevin Rose

‘I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘I really hate relaxing. I’ve done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil’s workshop. I like to focus on something.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.’ – Daniel Levitin

‘I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it’s also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.’ – Imran Tahir

‘I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.’ – Judy Blume

‘I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.’ – Whittaker Chambers

‘The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.’ – Lou Holtz

‘The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.’ – Hale Irwin

‘I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.’ – Pete Maravich

‘I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult.’ – David Ige

‘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.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.’ – Thalia

‘I have these surreal moments where I’m like, ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work.’ – Sarah Gadon

‘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.’ – Alcee Hastings

‘What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.’ – Anil Kapoor

‘Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.’ – Tim Cook

‘Shamu the killer whale is Sea World’s Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.’ – Nina Easton

‘I’m just gonna focus on raising my girls forever, and that’s gonna be it.’ – Dakota Meyer

‘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.’ – Denis Waitley

‘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.’ – James Welch

‘Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.’ – Erika Christensen

‘Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.’ – Ralph Marston

‘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.’ – Marvin Hagler

‘I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.’ – Brandon Jenner

‘The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always will be, the inspiration and focus of my efforts.’ – Malcolm Jenkins

‘The cinema should be human and be part of people’s lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.’ – Claire Denis

‘I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.’ – Angela Duckworth

‘The environmental movement’s focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.’ – Matthew Yglesias

‘I try really not to focus on what I’ve accomplished, but what I need to do next, what I’m working towards.’ – Hailie Deegan

‘Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience – communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.’ – Tony Bates

‘Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But ‘letting your mind wander’ is very often an important part of the creative process.’ – Jamais Cascio

‘From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.’ – Richard Branson

‘The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘I feel vulnerable because my mind – because of the stroke, my mind doesn’t focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don’t understand the world around me.’ – Ram Dass

‘As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘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.’ – Sarah Vowell

‘I never think in terms of how we can compete against the other companies; rather, our primary focus is to make consumers feel the uniqueness and attractiveness of our products.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you’re truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

‘The beauty of the Internet is there’s a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.’ – Michelle Phan

‘Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others. Average quarterbacks have tunnel vision. They see what’s in front of them. The better you get, the more that tunnel expands, and the more guys on the field you see.’ – Kurt Warner

‘I always say, ‘Activity breeds activity.’ You need to have activity happening in your store, and you need to create an experience. And I think if retailers focus on connection before transaction, they will win.’ – Kendra Scott

‘And I’ve always – the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you’re too busy worrying about the competition, you don’t focus enough on what you’re doing.’ – Katie Couric

‘I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.’ – John McEnroe

‘The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.’ – Naveen Jain

‘We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don’t like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!’ – Colbie Caillat

‘Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we’re the customer company. We’re the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.’ – Parker Harris

‘Over the years, I’ve learned, focus on the job at hand, and opportunities will open after.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It’s been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘I told our employees several times, ‘Let’s focus on the end user, let’s focus on committing to society, and focus on the crisis and doing the right thing, show our corporate social responsibility.’ Don’t focus on marketing and sales. That’s horrible culture.’ – Eric Yuan

‘Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.’ – Mukesh Ambani

‘One of the lowest moments for me was during the time when my mom was sick. It was really hard to focus on anything other than her and the thought of, Oh my God, how am I going to live without her?’ – Tabitha Brown

‘If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months’ worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.’ – Suze Orman

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

‘I like to live for today and what’s coming up tomorrow, and I love what we’re doing with Hellyeah. And that’s my focus, and that’s my goal, man.’ – Vinnie Paul

‘My focus is on love and inclusiveness.’ – RuPaul

‘True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.’ – Jenna Ushkowitz

‘Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘I have worked long and hard to try to reduce my debts, and I am devastated that it came to this conclusion. I now intend to focus on the remaining dates of the Westlife tour and my commitments to the band before looking to rebuild a future for my wife, my three children and myself.’ – Shane Filan

‘There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That’s my No. 1 priority.’ – Christen Press

‘One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.’ – William Glasser

‘There’s a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn’t there. When you hesitate, usually you’re in trouble.’ – Sidney Crosby

‘There’s so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There’s a renewal that happens, but it’s a very difficult one.’ – Ishmael Beah

‘We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff – like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff – try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.’ – Mark Manson

‘I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.’ – Chris Cornell

‘Creating the future means having a global vision and an extreme focus on the approachability of what we’re creating.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don’t really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.’ – Charles Leclerc

‘Running backwards down the stairs, holding the camera, trying to focus on what’s in front of you is difficult, and you need to be able to protect the camera.’ – Sam Hargrave

‘We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.’ – Shaun King

‘My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.’ – Jewel

‘You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.’ – Norah O’Donnell

‘Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I want to focus on crimes that affect families and not get distracted going for high-publicity cases. I want to see us move away from politics and focus more on prosecution.’ – George Brauchler

‘The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter’s rules, that needs to be implemented every time.’ – Brianna Wu

‘With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It’s great when you don’t have to force it, but when it’s not there, you better focus on getting there because, as we live with these characters, we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as ‘and’ and ‘what,’ or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as ‘hello.” – David Crystal

‘As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.’ – David A. Bednar

‘While freedom-loving people like libertarians and conservatives wish to provide the illumination of facts and the focus of reason for young people so that they might see and think clearly, those who call themselves progressives favor the classic totalitarian tactic of indoctrination.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.’ – Gautam Adani

‘I can’t focus when there’s too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, ‘Tidy up.” – Zaha Hadid

‘With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it’s much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things – because it actually is.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘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.’ – Rebecca Lobo

‘Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.’ – Bhavish Aggarwal

‘My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘I focus my energy on what I believe in.’ – Zak Bagans

‘It’s important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.’ – Maggie Hassan

‘You never know when my team is down and I might stand up and do something special. I focus on that.’ – Hardik Pandya

‘I’m never gonna be somebody who’s gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That’s not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.’ – Sara Bareilles

‘I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I focus on my own job.’ – Lando Norris

‘Technology’s role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher’s app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.’ – Jeannie Mai

‘Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.’ – James E. Faust

‘Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.’ – Jon Scieszka

‘Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.’ – Adam Vinatieri

‘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.’ – Mo Rocca

‘Everybody talks about, ‘This guy is talented; that guy is talented.’ The talent on the team and a lot of things in this game come down to focus, execution, not making a bad penalty. Really, that’s not a talent issue. It’s a focus issue; it’s a mindset issue.’ – Brian Flores

‘If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a ‘leggie batsman’ anymore.’ – Virat Kohli

‘I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It’s the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.’ – Michael Che

‘I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don’t have a special technique other than I can’t focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes.’ – Joanna Gaines

‘If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.’ – Anand Mahindra

‘Forget about whether global warming exists. My focus is on jobs.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.’ – Bryan Adams

‘In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It’s like e-mail or like IM or something like that. And we do those things, too, but we do so much more. We try to focus on the whole world and all the things that people are interested in, rather than just people to people, or one to one communication.’ – Tom Anderson

‘Even I have certain depictions that I personally don’t like, but I don’t believe artists should necessarily follow a particular person’s preference. They should focus on the things they like and follow their own desires.’ – Yoko Taro

‘We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.’ – Matt Mullenweg

‘The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.’ – Shaggy

‘The key thing about force protection is… if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you’re putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘My dad just wants me to dedicate myself to playing and to focus on the ball.’ – Neymar

‘It’s all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘I’ve been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I’m just going to keep that focus, but it’s going to be a family focus.’ – Wiz Khalifa

‘I’m trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.’ – Shawn Johnson

‘The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing – something that requires innovation.’ – Tim Cook

‘Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability – and stand out of the way.’ – Henry Samueli

‘For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I can be a binger when it comes to information, but most of the time, I’m pretty good, and I try to focus on my own life and personal communication.’ – Erika Christensen

‘For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.’ – Flea

‘There’s times – it depends on the game – you just need to focus and lock it in.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.

‘The only thing I want to do is focus and get better.’ – Virgil van Dijk

‘Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.’ – Joy Page

‘I don’t live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don’t think anyone would like it.’ – Juicy J

‘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.’ – Peter Munk

‘We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.’ – Don Yaeger

‘I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I’ve just been so focused on my career. Women don’t like being number two, so I’ve been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.’ – Shemar Moore

‘You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.’ – Larry Fitzgerald

‘When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.’ – Lily Rabe

‘It’s just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you’re going for, you’ve got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.’ – Trent Alexander-Arnold

‘Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.’ – Bernard Arnault

‘When one loses, it’s easy to focus on the refereeing decisions.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me and was part of my upbringing: Brokenhearted people and poor people and people who are in trouble should be your focus, and you should be on their team.’ – Ezra Furman

‘Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.’ – Victoria Justice

‘If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we’ll tend to be healthier people anyway, we’ll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we’ll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.’ – Queen Latifah

‘The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘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.’ – Paul P. Harris

‘I did a movie called ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,’ which had Frances McDormand and Amy Adams in it. It was Focus Features, an American company, and I used that as my ticket into America.’ – Tom Payne

‘Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I’m sure you’ve had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don’t want to do is focus upon them.’ – Bruce Wilkinson

‘You can read Windrush as a morality tale, but it is about the future of black people in the Caribbean. Where next will they want us to labour? Where is the next place they will take us? Why do we not focus on building our own economies and societies? We need to put all hands on deck to get our economies to function at a higher level.’ – Hilary Beckles

‘I am delighted to be joining ‘Guardian U.S.’s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. ‘Guardian U.S.’ brings the ‘Guardian’s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘The yoga pose helps me to calm down and focus when I need to.’ – Brianna Hildebrand

‘To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.’ – Jay Samit

‘One of the tangible benefits of the merger is that we are not vying with each other for work. We can now focus on organizing work in one place. There is no SAG, no AFTRA, only SAG-AFTRA.’ – Gabrielle Carteris

‘I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.’ – Barack Obama

‘When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also… I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.’ – Christian Serratos

‘Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.’ – Ethan Slater

‘I saw Song Hye Kyo once, and she was so pretty. She was bare-faced, and I was wearing full makeup, yet she still looked prettier than me. After seeing her, I told myself that I should just focus on my acting.’ – Park Bo-young

‘I try not to focus on all the pressure stuff.’ – Joe Burrow

‘It’s an honor to put on the Habs uniform and hopefully have the opportunity to play here a lot longer now. Now I can just focus on the goal of winning a Stanley Cup and I don’t have to worry about re-signing every other year, so I’m looking forward to working towards our goal.’ – Carey Price

‘Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment – where fear doesn’t exist.’ – John Mackey

‘Dark witches focus on dark magic, black magic and all kinds of horrible things. I don’t believe white witches have warts on them either, or pointy noses.’ – Gemma Collins

‘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.’ – Michael LeBoeuf

‘We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘There will always be someone out there that is better than you, and you have to accept it and focus on improving yourself.’ – Jordan Larson

‘Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.’ – Marley Dias

‘I try to focus on what I’m supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it’s supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can’t afford to slip up again.’ – Graeme Souness

‘I look for a goal and I try to keep my focus on it.’ – Marcelo

‘In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on improving English, mathematics, science, and technology.’ – Lucio Tan

‘If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.’ – Coy Bowles

‘It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it’s just not worth it if you’re going to be miserable for even a day.’ – Brie Larson

‘What batsmen like me do for fitness is often a bit different to what bowlers like Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad do but everyone in the squad has a big focus on core strength. It is really important for batting, bowling and fielding. You need a strong core and spine so your movement isn’t restricted out there.’ – Joe Root

‘A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.’ – Kevin Abstract

‘Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.’ – Douglas Brunt

‘When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘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.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘Nobody says Nico Rosberg is only in F1 because his dad was a famous racing driver who funded his karting career and helped him get into F1. It s a bit unfair just to focus on the fact that my husband is in F1 and it’s the only reason I’m in an F1 car.’ – Susie Wolff

‘I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I’m on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.’ – Chris Cornell

‘I don’t want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it’s going to be like to have kids and you’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.’ And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.’ – Cameron Mathison

‘The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.’ – Satya Nadella

‘My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.’ – Mike Posner

‘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.’ – Jason Statham

‘I get in trouble when I say things like, ‘I’m attracted to violence.’ I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from.’ – Caleb Carr

‘There are so many causes that you care about, but one can’t change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can – to use a very overworked phrase – truly try to do something to make a difference.’ – Anna Wintour

‘Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.’ – Daniel Goleman

‘I might look like a guy who does all kinds of things but actually I am a very reserved person. I may look like a party freak who is not disciplined. But I have a focus on the game and that is always there.’ – Hardik Pandya

‘Maintaining good health should be the primary focus of everyone.’ – Sangram Singh

‘The thing with focus is that it’s not this thing you aspire to, like, ‘Oh, on Monday I’m going to be focused.’ It’s every single minute: ‘Why are we talking about this when we’re supposed to be talking about this?” – Jonathan Ive

‘My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘My main focus is on my game.’ – Tiger Woods

‘Success means to focus on the values that we have internally.’ – Jaren Jackson, Jr.

‘Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it’s not the only thing. I’m not going to play forever.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘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.’ – Tony Robbins

‘If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook.’ – Lee Trevino

‘It’s tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it’s really just concentration and focus.’ – David Sanborn

‘I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.’ – Tim Cook

‘My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.’ – Riddick Bowe

‘I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘I focus on myself, and I train for myself.’ – Jose Aldo

‘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.’ – Paul Hawken

‘With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.’ – Jeannette Walls

‘School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘You don’t write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture – say, 500 words – it’s not so overwhelming.’ – Rebecca Serle

‘If you’re living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you’re in.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘I don’t think it was ever really my focus to prove to people one way or the other.’ – Daniel Jones

‘Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.’ – Ali Krieger

‘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.’ – Vera Wang

‘Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality – a concept of ‘what we want out of life’ against which we judge our experiences.’ – Jane Roberts

‘Impact investing has become a broad umbrella that includes all investing with a focus on both financial return and social impact, but in its best form, impact investing prioritizes impact over returns and achieves outcomes that traditional investing cannot.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just 13 years? Collaboration. Focus on a specific goal, and teamwork.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.’ – Brian Stokes Mitchell

‘I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘So I don’t really focus too much on that, and I think it’s dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you’re not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.’ – Katie Couric

‘Cerner’s focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.’ – Neal Patterson

‘As governor, I’ll focus every day on delivering for working Kentuckians like teachers and first responders all across the commonwealth.’ – Andy Beshear

‘The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.’ – Jim Davis

‘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.’ – Sydney Madwed

‘To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future – it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.’ – Bo Bennett

‘The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.’ – Bill Richardson

‘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.’ – Bob Taft

‘Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.’ – Christopher Bond

‘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.’ – Bob Riley

‘Let’s leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let’s take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count – on real results.’ – Phil Bredesen

‘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.’ – Ken Salazar

‘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.’ – Mel Martinez

‘You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.’ – Bill Nelson

‘I don’t have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn’t do my job.’ – Roger Ailes

‘I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That’s where my heart lies.’ – Mark Burnett

‘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.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘I think everybody’s got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I’m actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.’ – Sean Bean

‘As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.’ – Bill Owens

‘I’m tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.’ – 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.’ – Dave Freudenthal

‘The voters reward good performance. So, I’m going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.’ – Dave Heineman

‘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.’ – Jodi Rell

‘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.’ – Mel Martinez

‘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.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.’ – Mario Vazquez

‘I think what we’ve learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.’ – Paul Bremer

‘Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.’ – Bode Miller

‘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.’ – Doc Severinsen

‘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.’ – Uri Geller

‘I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I’m just trying to understand where it came from.’ – Caleb Carr

‘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.’ – August Wilson

‘At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That’s the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.’ – Nick Cave

‘It’s easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.’ – Dan Miller

‘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.’ – Robert Patrick

‘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.’ – Stevie Nicks

‘We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.’ – Tony Parker

‘It is always easier – and usually far more effective – to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.’ – Bob Nelson

‘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.’ – Derek Jeter

‘I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I’m busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.’ – John Templeton

‘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.’ – Nicholas Sparks

‘My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus – there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.’ – David Duchovny

‘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.’ – Stephen Harper

‘I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I’d end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.’ – David Hyde Pierce

‘For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point – if not a commodity – of political groups aiming to rise to power.’ – Omar Bongo

‘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.’ – Joichi Ito

‘Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.’ – Mitchell Reiss

‘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.’ – Eddie Bernice Johnson

‘Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.’ – Tom Ford

‘You help families focus on the future through their children.’ – Sam Worthington

‘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.’ – Nancy Johnson

‘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.’ – Thomas Frank

‘It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.’ – Robin Gibb

‘I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything’s a bit brighter and more in focus.’ – Robbie Coltrane

‘Each feature I make is my focus at that time.’ – Richard King

‘But the irony is that because the band isn’t the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.’ – Rick Allen

‘Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.’ – Rick Allen

‘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.’ – Trip Hawkins

‘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.’ – Leah Remini

‘One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.’ – Sanjay Kumar

‘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.’ – Sanjay Kumar

‘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.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘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.’ – James Daly

‘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.’ – James Daly

‘I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.’ – James Daly

‘But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.’ – John Abizaid

‘The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.’ – Michael Bergdahl

‘Some kids don’t know where they’ll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?’ – Dennis Moore

‘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.’ – 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.’ – James Ellroy

‘My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.’ – Estelle Morris

‘For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.’ – Joe Cocker

‘But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.’ – Colin Greenwood

‘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.’ – Fred L. Turner

‘It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?’ – Dick Wolf

‘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.’ – Guido van Rossum

‘Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.’ – Patricia Ireland

‘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.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.’ – Alan Autry

‘I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.’ – 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.’ – Gil Kane

‘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.’ – Greg Walden

‘Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.’ – Debra Wilson

‘It’s hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.’ – Elizabeth Moon

‘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.’ – Mike Simpson

‘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.’ – Robert Shea

‘Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.’ – Janine Turner

‘But when you’re beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.’ – Jerry Harrison

‘My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.’ – Steve Kanaly

‘The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.’ – John M. McHugh

‘I just want to focus on one thing at a time.’ – Josh Silver

‘Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.’ – Mark Kennedy

‘Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what’s happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.’ – Terry Goodkind

‘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.’ – Jack LaLanne

‘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.’ – Jim Jarmusch

‘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!’ – Roger Moore

‘Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.’ – Scott Cook

‘But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.’ – Bernhard Langer

‘One of the things I really like about Ford’s films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.’ – Ken Burns

‘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.’ – Branford Marsalis

‘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.’ – Michael Nyman

‘Most people didn’t have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.’ – Todd Rundgren

‘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.’ – Christopher Darden

‘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.’ – Edie Falco

‘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.’ – Lisa Loeb

‘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.’ – Mickey Rourke

‘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.’ – Jay Inslee

‘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.’ – Michael Strahan

‘My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.’ – Philip Emeagwali

‘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.’ – Ruben Hinojosa

‘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.’ – Christina Milian

‘One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I’d say is working on the storyboards.’ – Craig McCracken

‘So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.’ – John Hutton

‘We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.’ – Judy Woodruff

‘I mean, whose songs don’t focus on tragedy and loss?’ – Lucinda Williams

‘The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.’ – Lou Gramm

‘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.’ – Allen Klein

‘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.’ – Bernice Johnson Reagon

‘And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I’m not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I’m really going to enjoy it.’ – Rosanne Cash

‘The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.’ – Benjamin Cohen

‘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.’ – David Herbert Donald

‘Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.’ – Robert Casey

‘Any artist that’s involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.’ – Jock Sturges

‘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.’ – Bridget Riley

‘The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.’ – John Clayton

‘No, I have to really focus, especially when I’m writing because I wanna be good at it.’ – Tom Araya

‘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.’ – Arthur Erickson

‘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.’ – Laura Miller

‘Now it’s time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods… and real ethics reform at City Hall.’ – Laura Miller

‘My ego is controlled enough that I don’t have to be the focus.’ – Herbie Mann

‘Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.’ – Warren Farrell

‘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.’ – Ibrahim Rugova

‘My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.’ – Sheena Easton

‘The news anchor is exactly that – an anchor, a center, a focus.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘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.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘We must focus much more on developing countries’ own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.’ – Anna Lindh

‘And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘And so if your competitors aren’t growing, if there isn’t a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘When you’re doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they’re not on the same page.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that’s about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back… so by the end of next year, I hope most of that’s in place.’ – Jim Cantalupo

‘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.’ – Michael Tilson Thomas

‘Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.’ – Sue Grafton

‘We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.’ – William Labov

‘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.’ – LaToya London

‘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.’ – LaToya London

‘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.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘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.’ – Sue Grafton

‘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.’ – Bruce Vento

‘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.’ – John Grierson

‘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.’ – LaToya London

‘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.’ – Angela Merkel

‘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.’ – Morris Dees

‘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.’ – Elle Macpherson

‘Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.’ – Augusten Burroughs

‘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.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents’ capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.’ – Joan Blades

‘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.’ – Bruce McCulloch

‘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?’ – Charlie Hunter

‘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.’ – Gil Gerard

‘After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we’re going to win this war.’ – Janis Karpinski

‘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.’ – Shannon Elizabeth

‘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.’ – Eliza Dushku

‘This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.’ – Lorrie Fair

‘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.’ – Rick Renzi

‘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.’ – John W. Thompson

‘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.’ – Andrzej Wajda

‘I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.’ – Steve Case

‘Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.’ – Stephen Cambone

‘My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.’ – Dougray Scott

‘It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It’s rather like music: It’s a lot of hitting notes precisely.’ – Christine Baranski

‘I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I’m all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It’s just day by day.’ – Taryn Manning

‘Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.’ – Steven Chu

‘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.’ – Stephen Malkmus

‘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.’ – Jason Kidd

‘There’s a focus that hasn’t been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.’ – Graham Coxon

‘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.’ – David McCullough

‘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.’ – Neal Schon

‘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.’ – Joe Eszterhas

‘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.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘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.’ – John Olver

‘Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I’ve been involved with are pieces of work that I’m proud of, so I’m very happy for people to focus on them.’ – Jenny Agutter

‘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.’ – Virgil Goode

‘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.’ – Picabo Street

‘It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘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.’ – John Shimkus

‘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.’ – K. Eric Drexler

‘I prefer film and that’s what I think I’m gonna put my focus on.’ – Sasha Alexander

‘I’m aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I’m trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.’ – David Antin

‘Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.’ – Mark Edwards

‘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.’ – Mike McCready

‘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.’ – Don Henley

‘We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.’ – Judge Mills Lane

‘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.’ – Kevin Spacey

‘I’m really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that’s really important.’ – Stefan Edberg

‘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.’ – Teri Hatcher

‘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.’ – 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.’ – 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.’ – Harrison Ford

‘I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.’ – Rocco DiSpirito

‘I think I’m a focus for international attention.’ – Sting

‘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.’ – Calista Flockhart

‘I just focus on one show, when this is over then I’ll start looking at what is coming up.’ – Dennis Muren

‘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.’ – Al Franken

‘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.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much.’ – Nicole Kidman

‘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.’ – Kendrick Meek

‘To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what’s really important.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.’ – Daphne Zuniga

‘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.’ – Claire Danes

‘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.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘After I did nine years of a television series, I didn’t want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.’ – Gillian Anderson

‘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.’ – Fred G. Gosman

‘International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘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.’ – Paul Tagliabue

‘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.’ – Deval Patrick

‘I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people’s business.’ – Ernie Fletcher

‘Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.’ – Bob Beauprez

‘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.’ – Sunil Gavaskar

‘If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy’s greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘I rarely see one of the ‘summer blockbuster’ movies. I’d like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘When we get involved in the ratings, then we’re doing the network’s job. We need to focus on our work.’ – William Petersen

‘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.’ – Tiger Woods

‘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.’ – Diane Wood

‘Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want – an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we’ll do well as a party.’ – Tom Coburn

‘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.’ – Alexi Giannoulias

‘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!’ – Slavoj Zizek

‘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.’ – John Pistole

‘You can’t imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.’ – Janet Napolitano

‘Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.’ – Betty Buckley

‘I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We’re both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.’ – Ashlee Simpson

‘I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it’s part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.’ – Giovanni Ribisi

‘You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.’ – Charlie 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.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don’t need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.’ – Eric Cantor

‘My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.’ – Donald Trump

‘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.’ – Blake Lively

‘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.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.’ – Adele

‘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.’ – Imelda Staunton

‘Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.’ – Naveen Jain

‘So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.’ – Jay Carney

‘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

‘The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.’ – Herman Cain

‘Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.’ – Cornel West

‘Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don’t have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I’m constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that’s it.’ – Anna Paquin

‘You’re gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It’s gonna be great – look forward to the new bang-out.’ – Busta Rhymes

‘A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘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.’ – Mos Def

‘I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘Your mind simply can’t focus forward and downward all at the same time.’ – Daryn Kagan

‘In London it’s easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.’ – Victoria Wood

‘I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.’ – Kristi Yamaguchi

‘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.’ – Mike Singletary

‘In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you’re going do unless you’re faced with it.’ – Viola Davis

‘Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we’re going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.’ – Tim Scott

‘I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.’ – Saul Williams

‘The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.’ – Saul Williams

‘I always had the old-school model that I’m going to work for as long as I’m relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I’m going to learn about philanthropy.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘When you’re with your wife, you don’t say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don’t focus on dialogue, only focus on what you’re expressing.’ – Michel Hazanavicius

‘I’m sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.’ – Patrick Ewing

‘I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he’d run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn’t. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves.’ – Alexandra Kerry

‘As far commercial success, I don’t think that’s a focus but it’s not that we don’t enjoy that. It’s not something you can attempt and achieve.’ – Davey Havok

‘A lot of the stuff in ‘Speed Racer’ has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.’ – Emile Hirsch

‘A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.’ – Emilio Estevez

‘I’m going to let myself off the hook, because if there’s one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it’s how much I weigh.’ – Emily Procter

‘I just decided to take some time off. I’ve been modeling since ’93, ’92, and that’s a pretty long time. I’m a single mother and I chose to focus on her.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘I don’t like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don’t want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.’ – Lily Collins

‘You know, it’s recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It’s because of the connection I feel to people.’ – Jessica Chastain

‘We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can’t impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.’ – Campbell Newman

‘I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It’s really just a lack of focus and discipline.’ – Sean Astin

‘When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There’s still so much to be grateful for.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘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.’ – Kevin McKidd

‘To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I’m over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘As people get older, they get married, have kids. I’m not married. I don’t have kids, so I’m able to focus 100 percent on this.’ – Steven Lopez

‘Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.’ – Amnat Ruenroeng

‘Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world’s stage and hopefully do the United States proud.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it’s not fun anymore.’ – Julianne Hough

‘I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don’t want to participate in something that I don’t think is constructive storytelling.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.’ – Jonny Wilkinson

‘If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.’ – Petra Nemcova

‘I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.’ – Amy Jo Johnson

‘Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.’ – Dana Hussein

‘I hope to focus on what I’m passionate about because I think I’d do them best job on them – education, urban education, women and children’s issues and literacy.’ – Jenna Bush

‘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.’ – Melanie Roach

‘I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.’ – Rebecca Lobo

‘People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can’t provide that.’ – Will Oldham

‘I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.’ – Mitch Albom

‘I don’t think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.’ – Nikki Haley

‘My focus is definitely on the racing.’ – Scott Dixon

‘All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.’ – Mark Viduka

‘I’m the only girl on The Food Network who grills – I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it’s really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.’ – Sandra Lee

‘That’s the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.’ – Alton Brown

‘I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject – the cultural and sociological geography – to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.’ – David Maraniss

‘All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don’t think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.’ – Kate Mosse

‘To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I’m doing amazing projects that, if I didn’t have time off, I wouldn’t be able to focus on.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.’ – Selma Blair

‘I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn’t like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.’ – Erin Gray

‘Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.’ – Bobby Flay

‘Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.’ – Aidan Quinn

‘Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.’ – Amanda Burton

‘Focus on your music and not technology.’ – Bryan Adams

‘If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don’t think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.’ – Chris Isaak

‘My first obligation is my job. It’s very hard to really get into campaign mode when you’ve got to focus on doing the work.’ – Claire McCaskill

‘A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed – when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.’ – David Frum

‘When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.’ – Louis de Bernieres

‘It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.’ – Nanci Griffith

‘The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it’s not about who you represent, I think you’ve sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.’ – Andy Stern

‘When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.’ – Alexander Wang

‘Right now, I’m at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn’t on when I’m going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.’ – Venus Williams

‘I don’t attend an actual school but I’m still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It’s hard core but definitely worth it, and it’s my main focus now – finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.’ – JoJo

‘The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there’s always a place for that too.’ – Emeli Sande

‘My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters – how do we get the independent voters back? – Henry Cuellar’ – Henry Cuellar

‘As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.’ – Henry Cuellar

‘I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing – he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous – any athlete who tells you they’re not nervous isn’t telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.’ – Carl Lewis

‘In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said ‘you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.’ I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.’ – Jeffrey Donovan

‘I’m just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.’ – Jerry Cantrell

‘Sometimes in this country, we don’t focus a lot on people’s experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.’ – Artur Davis

‘There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘I’m happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I’m not happy to get surgery, but I’m happy that I can focus on getting better.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it’s the right thing to do out there.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important – creating jobs.’ – Jack Markell

‘Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.’ – Bill Gates

‘I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.’ – Bill Gates

‘When I’m on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

‘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.’ – Reince Priebus

‘Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you’re feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.’ – Paul Ryan

‘Athletes are extremists. When they’re training, it’s laser focus.’ – Hope Solo

‘I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You’re going to look back 20 years from now and of course you’re going to remember the games. But I’m going to remember seeing my family in the stands.’ – Hope Solo

‘Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don’t want that to affect me too much.’ – Missy Franklin

‘When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.’ – Kenny Chesney

‘All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets – they’re not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.’ – Gary Locke

‘My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn’t fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn’t there and focus on the job.’ – Glenn Hoddle

‘I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!’ – Hal Sparks

‘There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.’ – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

‘In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on ‘The Simpsons,’ for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I’m doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I’ll stay after class for another hour or two.’ – Hank Azaria

‘I’ve had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn’t get to me.’ – Annie Lennox

‘I really try to focus on my books and readers.’ – Emily Giffin

‘I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that’s a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.’ – Jeb Bush

‘You focus on the things that you can control, and that’s what I’m doing.’ – Jeb Bush

‘It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘I do have ADD and in real life, I’m all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I’d start drifting off… I can’t sit still too long.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.’ – Mia Hamm

‘The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves.’ – Tracy Reese

‘If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it’s just a mush.’ – Tom Hooper

‘President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that’s what the American people expect and deserve – not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don’t spend time trying to figure out what’s in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren’t sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation’s best days are still ahead.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, ‘Oh, Grover Norquist has power.’ No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.’ – Grover Norquist

‘We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.’ – Grover Norquist

‘The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That’s what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.’ – Grover Norquist

‘I try to not focus on what people expect from me.’ – Lady Gaga

‘The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.’ – Damian Lewis