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Quotes About Focus

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
~ Henri Matisse
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
~ Henry Ford
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
~ Honore de Balzac
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
~ Huston Smith
I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.
~ Jack Kirby
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.
~ Jenny Slate
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.
~ John Constable
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
~ Dan Jenkins
Steve Jobs just made a product. He started off where a lot of people were skeptical of what he was doing, and he basically just focused on the product and making it the best he could, and really focused on what it was that these products would take into your lives.
~ Joshua Michael Stern
It might sound strange now from where I'm standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.
~ Carl Froch
Bowling at Steve Smith in his form is difficult and you have to make sure you take all your chances.
~ Joe Root
Little Steven - the songwriter, producer, and arranger - stayed alive doing the 'Lilyhammer' score. That pretty much took up three or four years of my life, and all of my musical energy went into that.
~ Steven Van Zandt
That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
I like to be organized, I like to stick to my schedule. That's how I stay focused.
~ Mitchell Trubisky
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
~ Cecil Rhodes
We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Have common sense and stick to the point.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
~ Zinedine Zidane
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.
~ Chris Pratt
When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
~ Fabrizio Moreira