- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can focus on is my performance, and that's going to help me be successful, no matter where I am.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
One area where the state can be more effective in addressing the doctor shortage is to focus on making sure that Arizona is a friendly environment for doctors and those wishing to practice medicine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020