Focused Quotes - Page 22

• Football has to work really hard to put a smile on peoples face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if youre always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

  Gordon Taylor

  Football, Soul, Faces

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• I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Negative, Looks

  "A Justice Deliberates: Sotomayor On Love, Health And Family". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

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• We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Advertising, Muse, Length

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• Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Organization, People, Kind

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• Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small
  successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be
  impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.

  John Gokongwei

  Rewards, Financial, Impatient

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• So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.

  Joe Kraus

  Advice, Done, Beta

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• I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

  Joseph DeRisi

  Kids, Research, My Family

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• I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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• When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.

  Vin Diesel

  Character, Pockets, Needs

  "Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy just to keep focused. I actually think it's harder for journalists.

  Rob Corddry

  Thinking, Causes, Egomaniacs

  "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire.com Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.

  Steve Ballmer

  Rocks, Way, Execution

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• At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

  Alicia Keys

  Mean, Being Real, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

  Young Jeezy

  Play, Might, Individual

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• If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

  Chris Hardwick

  Play, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At times it may seem that our trials are focused on areas of our lives and parts of our souls with which we seem least able to cope. Since personal growth is an intended outcome of these challenges, it should come as no surprise that the trials can be very personal-almost laser guided to our particular needs or weaknesses.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Challenges, Soul, Growth

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• Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

  Nafisa Joseph

  Presence Of Mind, Mind, Important

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• Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

  Maureen Murdock

  Awareness, Passive

  Maureen Murdock (1990). “The Heroine's Journey”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

  John Barrasso

  Caves, Bears, Resources

  "Barrasso wants hearings on CIA's climate change work" by Ben Geman, thehill.com. January 5, 2010.

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• The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

  Alison Moyet

  Voice, Trends, Receiving

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• Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

  Charles M. Blow

  Determination, Destiny, Leader

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• Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

  Mark McKinnon

  Winning, Past, Campaigns

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• Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Love, Education, Time

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• I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

  Tracy Morgan

  Kids, Newspapers, Crap

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2007.

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• I guess my work is described a lot of the time as very sensual and sexy. When I take a picture, I'm very focused on trying to discover something about a person. Or about an idea. I try to be quite successful at it.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Sexy, Successful, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy. But I am really lucky. I don't understand it. I really, honestly, am much more focused on my personal life.

  Megan Fox

  Crazy, People, Trying

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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