Focus Quotes · Page 145

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

— Thomas Massie

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

My plate is full with just acting. I want to focus on that, and then maybe direct in the future.

— Penelope Cruz

“Success is rarely about doing more — it’s about doing what matters with relentless consistency”

— Khurram Shehzad

Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.

— David Brock

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

— M. Scott Peck

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Be so focused on an open door that you are unfazed by any door that closes on you at all.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of…

— Julio Torres

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to…

— William Glasser

I look back at the bubble as a net positive. Maybe it's because of how my career continued to go from there.…

— Malika Andrews

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus…

— Stanley Hauerwas

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things,…

— Frederick Lenz

I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and…

— Cory Monteith

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ.…

— Ricky Schroder

“This would be a perfect time and place to meditate, if I practiced meditation. But I don't want to empty my mind.…

— Robert Finch - The Outer Beach

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive…

— Gregory Maguire

“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice…

— Anālayo

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I…

— Julio Cortazar

“Training in high-stress situations increases what psychologists call “situational awareness.” Defined as the ability to absorb information accurately, assess it calmly, and…

— Steven Kotler

Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him…

— Nicole Krauss

“anxiety becomes high energy when taken to the light. For me, it worked like this: I used to live in a constant…

— Jenni Schaefer

In one sense, Facebook is very focused as an address book, as efficient communication. It's like e-mail or like IM or something…

— Tom Anderson

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

— Elizabeth Fraser

If you just focus on getting better, and not being the best, you have such a good time.

— James Acaster

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

— Edmund Hillary

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

— Maria Montessori

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

— Serena Williams

I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push…

— Tommy Caldwell

A wise person looks at the end results instead of focusing only on his or her immediate circumstances.

— Craig Williams

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion…

— Trinny Woodall

“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus”

— Isaiah Hankel

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

— Herbert A. Simon

“There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.”

— Barbara Branden

I think what Californians want is a governor who's going to focus on California.

— Kevin Faulconer

I'm just trying to focus on playing my game and playing well, and whatever happens afterwards, we'll see.

— Jimmer Fredette

“One of the greatest gifts you can give is your undivided attention.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

— Marianne Williamson