- Go
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to be a great team, you've got to have focus no matter what's going on.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to focus in to what I'm supposed to do at the line and shoot the basketball.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020