Focus Quotes

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

~ Elle Macpherson

I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life.

~ Ciara

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

~ Bill Owens

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

~ Daphne Zuniga

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.

~ Chandra West

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

~ Michael Morpurgo

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

~ Michael Steele

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

~ Jonathan Sacks

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

~ Romain Grosjean

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

~ Jenny Nimmo

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

~ Ranbir Kapoor

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

~ Lindsey Stirling

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

~ Helen Fisher

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

~ Helen Fisher

I was a very romantic, overly dramatic young lady, which served me well as a songwriter. Especially as someone who had to focus on lyrics and melody, because if you're a dramatic and romantic person, lyrics come easy, and you turn every single short-term relationship into the biggest 'Romeo-and-Juliet' story ever.

~ Jane Wiedlin

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

~ Jeff Bridges

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

~ Michael Pollan

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

~ Laila Ali

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

~ Derek Jeter

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

~ Philippe Petit

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I'd focus on those gigantic zits and just wail about what a monster I was, how I would never have a career because of my gross skin. I couldn't pass a mirror with out thinking about how hideous my skin was and how I wished I was someone else, someone with perfect skin.

~ Stephanie Beatriz

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

~ Caleb Carr

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

~ Terry O'quinn

I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'!

~ Poppy Delevingne

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

~ Alessia Cara

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.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

~ Marco Rubio

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

~ Lebron James

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

~ Naveen Jain

If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

~ John S. Watson

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

~ Matthew Yglesias

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.

~ Mel Martinez

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.

~ David Harsanyi

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

~ Payal Kadakia

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

~ Mark Lloyd

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

~ Russell Simmons

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

~ Tony Cardenas

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

~ Dele Alli