Best Focused Quotes

Without knowledge, skill cannot be focused. Without skill, strength cannot be brought to bear and without strength, knowledge may not be applied.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

I’m not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I’m focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?

I don’t pay much attention to magazine covers. One day, there’ll be slack times in my career. It’s unavoidable, because success is temporary. Which is why you have to stay focused on this very taxing job.

When I’m speaking, I’m more focused on the words as meaning. When I’m singing, I’m more focused on the words as sound. The emotion is more targeted when I’m speaking, more flowing when I’m singing.

When I finally got together with Rostropovich as a student, he was very focused, almost entirely focused on the music itself, on what the composer had in mind and what he knew about the composer. Many of the works that I played for him had in fact been composed and written for him; he was often the first performer of these works, having known the composers personally.

I’m not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It’s become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.

I am centered and focused. I feel more secure each day

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you – it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you’re not really doing it for yourself.

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

He’s a nice young lad. I’ll keep putting him on … as long as he doesn’t tell me any lies. He’s back focused and it’s great to see. Let’s hope he keeps going on from that.

Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.

Being able to work as part of a team is essential. You learn to give as well as receive support. I have learnt to be focused and I have carried this with me elsewhere in my life. I am also a safer driver and I am a stronger person mentally as I am constantly under pressure and have to deal with things.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

I hadn’t focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

I’ve been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on ‘Passions.

Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.

My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world’s Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective – in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive – form of a Muslim ban.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that’s just the biggest issue.

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

When your mind is focused and made up you don’t make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

Prepare for every negotiation… 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases the likelihood of negotiation success. 2) Support your desired outcome with data that points to its reasonableness. 3) Writing down your key points in advance – and practicing them – enables you to stay focused on what’s most important and avoid going off on tangents. 4) Err on the side of asking for more, rather than less [of what you really want]. 5) Be willing to walk away.