- Creative
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most athletes, there's a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I've been very lucky so far, and it hasn't presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you're there and actually doing it.
- Singing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just always wonderful to have a director who encourages you so much to focus on the present.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
- Feedback
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- Nov 07, 2020
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020