Focus Quotes

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness."

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

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"When you focus on the good, the good gets better."

"What you focus on expands. Focus on the positive."

"To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on."

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

"I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be."

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."

"Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals."

"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

"There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility."

"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."

"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."

"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."

"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."

"A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice."

"We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour."

"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility."

"While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure."

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."

"One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities."

"I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health."

"I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better."

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

"Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you."

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."

"I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."

"I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that."

"I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."