Focused Quotes - Page 17

• A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Nuclear Iran, Priorities

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• The recipe for creating anything is really quite simple. Take good or bad feelings (meaning positive or negative vibrations), bake with varying degrees of emotion to increase magnetism, and here comes what we've attracted, like it or not. What we have focused on, and how we have vibrated about it, is what we have gotten... from birth.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Spiritual, Simple, Creating

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.44, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Dream, Time, Leader

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• A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Moving, Wine, Kids

  "Vintage year? Not till the Nose says so". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. Novemebr 19, 2000.

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• I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

  Jayma Mays

  Fun, Pay, Bills

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

  Johnny Manziel

  Winning, Hands, Games

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• At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.

  Mike McGavick

  Needs, World, Clients

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• If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

  Bob McDonnell

  Hard Work, Missions, Work Harder

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• I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Confused, Real, Trying

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• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Country, Beach, Army

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• Everyone is more focused on presenting the best that the league has to offer, rather than the worst.

  Joe Dumars

  League, Worst, Offers

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• I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

  Paul Stanley

  Mean, Goal, Car

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• We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.

  Michael Corbat

  Strong, Unique, Play

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• I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Passion, Forever, Singing

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• I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

  Harry Hamlin

  Past, Careers, Acting

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• I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.

  Susan Downey

  Beautiful, Passion, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mean, Views, Niche

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• The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

  John Katzman

  Team, Trying, Needs

  "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'". Interview with Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

  George Gilder

  School, People, Degrees

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• Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

  Steven Hall

  Hunting, Bird, Hunters

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• Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, People, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Mar 12, 2014

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• I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

  George Michael

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Rebirth, Determine

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• If you look at the economics of Nokia roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

  Stephen Elop

  Smart, Thinking, Phones

  "Quest Means Business", edition.cnn.com. October 26, 2011.

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• For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

  Ben Savage

  Writing, Acting Right, Right Now

  "Paging Your Inner-Tween: We're Chatting With Ben Savage (AKA Cory Matthews!)". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. October 18, 2011.

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