Focus Quotes - Page 23

• Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

  Ken Blanchard

  Numbers, People, Important

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2015

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• The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

  Stone Gossard

  Song, Writing, Swings

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• I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

  Sandra Lee

  Girl, Fun, Book

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• I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

  Agyness Deyn

  Jobs, Thinking, Careers

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• When I'm in focus mode, I do training six times a week. Carbs only in the morning. And I try not to eat at least two hours before bed.

  Ciara

  Morning, Two, Training

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• TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Giving, Way, Advertising

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• Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Victory, Tasks

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• I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is.

  Cynthia Carroll

  Hands, Organization, Discipline

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• God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

  Louie Giglio

  Waiting, Enough, Memos

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• The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, What If, Needs

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• 'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Believe, Amazing Life, Grease

  "Olivia Newton John: My secret to looking young at 60? I'm in love again". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

  Tim Ferriss

  Believe, Impact, World

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• It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Intelligent, Past, Years

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• Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Moving, Goal

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• You become what you think about most. When you continually focus on the fear of failure, failure will become real for you. Look instead at the possibilities. Look at what could happen if only you would attempt it. Sure, it might not succeed completely. Yet even then you will learn something.

  Ralph Marston

  Real, Thinking, Looks

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• NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Lying, Agency, Important

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Genius, Impossible

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

  John Ratey

  Morning, Exercise, Brain

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• The Law of attraction responds the same way your mind does: it hears what you don't want, when you hear yourself make a statement containing the words don't, not, or no, you are actually giving attention to what you don't want. Remember, you attract to your life whatever you give your attention, energy, and focus to whether wanted or unwanted.

  Michael Losier

  Law Of Attraction, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Lets not focus on saving a nickel... lets focus on making a buck.

  Adam Carolla

  Saving, Bucks, Nickels

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• What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

  Jack Welch

  Years, Innovation, Way

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• I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle class jobs. We`re in a different world than 1994. The China we dealt with in 1994 is a lot different than the China today in 2015.

  Chris Matthews

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.

  Chris Matthews

  Blow, Bridges, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The older I get, the more I'm drawn to the smaller films, but I still hope to keep bigger films in my repertoire. It's just maybe going to be a shift in focus, but I'll definitely still hopefully be kicking around in those.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kicking, Film, Bigger

  Source: collider.com

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• Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

  Alia Shawkat

  Couple, Acting, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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