Home /
Quotes /
Focus Quotes

Focus Quotes

What you focus on is what you build.

These focus quotes come largely from people describing their creative process — narrowing in on the best shots during filming, choosing between a pinhole view and a wide panorama, and treating a life's work like a child that demands ongoing attention. For more, see our Concentration quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Mind
|
Nov 07, 2020

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

Quotes by Aimee Mullins

My Life
|
Nov 07, 2020

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

Quotes by Ajay Devgan

Life
|
Nov 07, 2020

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

Quotes by Aidan Quinn

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Long
|
Nov 07, 2020

I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in space long enough to go to Mars or how to build and operate human communities on the Moon and Mars.

Nov 07, 2020

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

Nov 07, 2020

Only your work is your hands, and I focus on that.

Nov 07, 2020

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

Growth
|
Nov 07, 2020

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

Nov 07, 2020

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

Quotes about staying sharp and committed continue on our Determination and Clarity pages, both closely related to the discipline focus requires.

Previous
1
2
...
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102

Famous Topics

Top 10 quotes