Focus Quotes - Page 74

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.

Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.

I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.

To me, pre-match preparation is extremely important because that's something which is within my control.

It's important not to take anything for granted.

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Fitness - Focus - Form.

We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

Mental strength is extremely important. We must be able to put troublesome people out of our minds. They should not be able to distract our focus. This relates to casting our cares on the Lord (1 Peter 5:7).

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.