Focus Quotes - Page 8

• When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Ideas, Pay, Bills

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

  Gil Kane

  Thinking, Years, Precision

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• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Important, Mystery, Problem

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• Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

  Debra Wilson

  Singing, Bigs, Outlets

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• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Mother, Baby

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• You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

  James Daly

  Excellence, Rumor, Trying

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• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Expansion, Decay

  In-Laws and Outlaws (1962)

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• One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

  Ken Burns

  Hero, Character, Firefighter

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• I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

  James Daly

  Smart, Thinking, Execution

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• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  Dan Miller

  Sometimes, Easy, Divides

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• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  Betty Buckley

  Capacity, Performances

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• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.

  Donald Trump

  Pain, Discipline, Want

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• You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Events, Negative, Add

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing.

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Quality, Size

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 04, 2017

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• I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

  George Dzundza

  Grateful, Opportunity, Celebrity Status

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• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Pockets, Niche

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

  Steve Odland

  Years, Sea, Progress

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• I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Book, Tvs, Cookware

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• But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Practice, Games

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• We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Country, Jobs, Opportunity

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• Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

  Rick Allen

  Sex, Drug, Chasing

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• When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Today, Months, Down And

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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