Focus Quotes · Page 258

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

— Russell Brand

I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is…

— Angelina Jolie

I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I…

— Brent Faiyaz

Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens.

— Adam Rippon

I often wonder if my relationships don't work out because I am the more Alpha one and the focus is on me…

— Georgia Toffolo

It has been asserted that there is a separate species on the earth to correspond with each one of the stars. Now…

— Nicholas of Cusa

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what…

— Jason Priestley

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of…

— Marcus Aurelius

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus…

— Guido van Rossum

Try to get respect, not attention. It will last longer.

— Pretty Ladii

As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do…

— Michelle Bachelet

Don't think about what you should have done in the past think about what you should be doing in the present.

— Sonya Parker

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

America's future as the global leader in innovation remains in the balance until our immigration system is fixed. A large portion of…

— Brad Feld

“In a world filled with distraction, attention is our competitive advantage.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Once I had the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

— Ethel Merman

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now…

— Barbara Kruger

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

— Serena Williams

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to…

— Brittany Bowe

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

— Trent Reznor

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

— Elisabeth Shue

We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilities. I can't be on 'American Idol,'…

— Marlee Matlin

“When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're…

— David Rakoff

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

— James Vincent McMorrow

My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.

— Jennifer Saunders

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

— Raoul Peck

Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it…

— Paul Lockhart

Before games, I wasn't really that hydrated. I've tried now to focus so much on it.

— Emile Smith Rowe

“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of…

— Sam Mendes

Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception...…

— Oskar Kokoschka

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

— Edgar Wright

Over the course of your career you learn to focus and concentrate on what you have to do and block everything else…

— Mike Webster

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

— Kordell Stewart

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and…

— Andy Andrews

The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

— Mary Dillon

You aren't going to go crazy," I said firmly. "You're stronger than you think. The next time you feel that way, find…

— Richelle Mead

When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for…

— Garrison Wynn