Focus Quotes - Page 65

If a business has to be told that it needs more focus, accountability and decisiveness, there is a bigger problem at hand.

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

Take your mind off yourself. Focus on what you are doing and how you can do it better.

In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.