Quotes About Focused

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

the ability to review a lesson multiple times, pause the video, and engage in focused reflection greatly added to professional growth.

When I was in the middle of Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy – which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist – you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed. Which

didn't have time for small talk.

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.

I'm a child of extremes.

All the techniques to help stay calm and focused, to control your mind, have all really helped me.

There should be room in education for schooling to be more responsive to events, more focused on varying interpretations and more able to create artistic and technological responses to the world as it changes.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

I have a strange - because there's no other way probably of describing it - uh, temper. I'm a very difficult taskmaster. I don't wait.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

Sunnie could talk to a dead body for an hour before she'd notice the person wasn't breathing, and likely finish her story even after she had.

seems so thoroughly thought through, so comprehensively intentional. Certainly,

In his work habits, Nicholas was solitary. Unlike most monarchs and chiefs of state—unlike even his own wife—he had no private secretary. He preferred to do things for himself. On his desk he kept a large calendar of his daily appointments, scrupulously entered in his own hand. When official papers arrived, he opened them, read them, signed them and put them in envelopes himself.

His eyes were fixed straight ahead.

That brings us back to the default mode. "When your mind is at rest, what it is really doing is bouncing thoughts back and forth," Andreasen says. "Your association cortices are always running in the background, but when you are not focused on some task—for example, when you are doing something mindless, like driving—that's when your mind is most free to roam. That's why that is when you most actively create new ideas.

try to think past the image, to the Angelique I now know. A smart, serious student. A caretaker for her brother, her aunt, and her mom back home. In her brother's words, not a dreamer but a planner.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls 'the soul,' which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him . . .

He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

I'm a Democrat in that I work towards progressive things, but I also am laser-like focused in my desire to actually get things done and not just talk about it.