Quotes About Focus

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

When I was a CIA officer we would have meetings and you don't know what people's politics are... We were there to serve a mission that we were focused on that mission.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

I always play with a very high ponytail so that my hair doesn't bother me.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Anything is better than sitting around waiting for the right movie to come along. I lose my edge when I'm sitting around the pool not working.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

From the age of 17, I lived the life of a hermit and dedicated myself to gym life, first in the South Bronx and then back in England. I was in a bubble and I bypassed a lot of popular culture.

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.

I didn't apply for shadow cabinet, because as an MP, I had nine critic portfolios, and so it doesn't make any sense for me to be focusing on just one of those as an adviser on policy to the party.