Focus Quotes · Page 128

“Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.”

— Orrin Woodward

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

— Lisi Harrison

If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.

— Giles Duley

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Deepak Chopra

A key focus of my administration will be the revitalization of Japan through a new form of capitalism.

— Fumio Kishida

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

I know you can't lose concentration when you get in range, otherwise you'll get caught with something.

— Demian Maia

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to…

— Angie Martinez

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying…

— Pam Houston

My job is just to get open and catch the ball so I don't really focus on who the quarterback is. But…

— Danny Amendola

“We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the…

— Fred G. Gosman

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to…

— Daniel Goleman

Donald Trump is going to focus - I know the media wants to focus on that one issue. Donald Trump will articulate…

— Mike Pence

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so…

— Hanneli Mustaparta

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy…

— Henry Giroux

Managing the boundaries between work and the rest of our lives - family, community, and the private self - is now a…

— Stewart D. Friedman

“Only by taking charge of your day-to-day can you truly make an impact in what matters most to you. I urge you…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those…

— Forest Whitaker

“There is an aversion to long chunks of sentences...The dire problem is that long chunks of sentences are still the best way…

— Dick Meyer

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that…

— Odeya Rush

It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk…

— Walter Isaacson

I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything…

— John Francis Daley

If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the…

— Jason Mraz

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

— William Labov

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

— Socrates

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

— Seneca the Younger

It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.

— Tim Gunn

Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.

— Larry Norman

There's something about majors where I just focus a lot more. Obviously, I need to do that more often.

— Brooks Koepka

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

— Rihanna

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

— Eckhart Tolle

“that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.”

— René Descartes

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

— Van Morrison

The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

— Bob Proctor

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

— Kurt Fuller

I'm a striker, I love to score goals, but my focus is not on scoring goals but on getting the chances.

— Erling Haaland

With full focus and the full commitment and, of course, with good results, everything can change fast.

— Marco Silva

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

— John Ortberg

If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any…

— Felipe Anderson