- Positive
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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
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.
- High School Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can't do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn't do as well.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.
- Seven
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- Nov 07, 2020
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
- Win
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020