Focus Quotes - Page 47

To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.

Focus equals feeling.

Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

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

I was 18, and I either wanted to go to university in the States, and experience it like how it is in the movies - you know, date a cheerleader, be the coolest guy on campus - or I wanted to take a year and focus on what I wanted to do. I got into all the universities I applied to, but I took a year off anyway and said, let's see what happens.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Take more time, cover less ground.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

Skilled leaders focus on "we," not "me."

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.