Quotes About Focus

I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

At some point you'll have to get serious about life.

I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.