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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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would welcome sitting for a year. Being able to experience what the NFL is like, settling into a new city. You get a house situated, there's marketing, there's stuff going on you're not used to. Being able to have a year to learn the offense, learn the speed of the game, and coming out in Year 2, you could focus all on football.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only focus after I start the putter away from the ball is keeping the back of my left wrist as fat as possible from start to finish. This is critical to keeping the putterhead and ball moving straight down the target line after impact. It's also how Rory Mcllroy squares his putterface, and obviously it works for him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020