Focus Quotes

I'm very big on focus.
Andrew Cuomo

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

Long, Control, Learned

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.
Charles Schumer

Dreams, Best, Morning

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

Yourself, Needed, Dedicate

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus

Faults, Remedies

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

Family, Great, Stupid

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

Movies, Summer, Stronger

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.
Jeffrey Kluger

Best, Reason, Tell

Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
Jeffrey Kluger

Parents, Before, Attention

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

Game, Win, Before

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

History, Saying, Why

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

Life, Work, God

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

Forward, Care, Past

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.
Michael Sheen

Time, Good, Rock

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
Jeff Bezos

Important, Difficult, Times

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

Life, Win, Play

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

Mirror, Distorting

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

End, Political, Nothing

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
Lucy Powell

Creative, Means, Financial

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

Others, Impossible, Suffering

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
Nick Clegg

Home, Able, Kids

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

Career, Give, Interest

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

Find, Away, Attention

As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
Alison Sweeney

Made, Away, Keep

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
Damian Lewis

Learned, Sometimes, Hand

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
Holly Madison

Life, Amazing, Person

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
J. J. Abrams

Feeling, Whenever, Demand

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

Life, Time, Thought

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.
Jeb Bush

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