Focus Quotes

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The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is important to do what you don't know how to do.
It is important to see your skills as keeping you
from learning what is deepest and most mysterious.
If you know how to focus, unfocus.
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate
and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you get frustrated by some of your family,
focus on the good aspects of your relationship
and attempt to overlook the irritations.
Then give thanks for everyone who plays a part in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At the beginning, we are in relationship
because we are attracted to the other person -
we think they are sexy, smart, funny,
whatever it is that we find appealing.
But very quickly, the focus of the relationship
turns to whether we feel appreciated.
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Clarity affords focus.
- Thomas Leonard

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

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

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

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

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.
- Sasha Alexander

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

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 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

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
- Joe Cocker

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

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

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

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

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

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
- Alan Watts

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
- Lou Gramm

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.
- Richard King

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 think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
- James Daly

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

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Focus on remedies, not faults.
- Jack Nicklaus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie