- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love making music, and that's my focus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.
- Nov 07, 2020
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on a napkin. I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to focus on getting to the free-throw line and knocking them down in practice and getting them in the game.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never on Twitter. I'm never on Instagram. And that's not by choice: it's just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain't really been my focus.
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- Nov 07, 2020